Abortion

"What about an infant or a child who has not learned to talk, and walk yet. Are they not yet a human being? According to you then when is something a human being?"An infant does have superior development. Incredibly intricate design and functions from even just a newborn. Considering most abortions are in the first trimester, it's fair to compare the essentially full human being that is a newborn with a fetus in the first three months. The latter is, at most, three inches, has stubs with the slight formations of digits, and the beginnings of vital organs (1). It's an undoubtedly fascinating development, but by no means a superior one."An embryo is not damaged DNA but separate DNA half from the father and half from the mother."Fine, but my point remains that different DNA does not make an entirely unique human being. One, every single sperm has separate DNA, but this doesn't mean there's millions of deaths every time a man has a wet dream. Second, DNA isn't even a living thing. Even if we're going with cells instead, this still doesn't make it any more of a life. When someone dies, do you worry about their hair cells dying? Or the cells in their toenails? Of course not. Even fertilized eggs get flushed out half the time. Do you mourn the deaths of these almost-people? That's not a rhetorical question; do you seriously mourn the death of fertilized eggs that don't implant? By your logic, you should be as sad about this as you would a miscarriage or an abortion."The embryo is not part of her body. It is separate from her body because it is a living human being."Are you joking? An embryo is not separate; it's entirely connected. It's connected to a woman for nine months, otherwise it (typically) dies. An embryo is an extension of her body as much as her fingernail is. If you disconnect that fingernail, it's going to wither and die, just like an embryo. That doesn't make the fingernail a human being by a long shot."Why does it matter if its dangerous for the child if the child is going to be killed anyone [sic] in the abortion?"You can't be serious. Did you miss the part where I said it's dangerous for the mother? Unlike how a fetus needs nitpicked definitions to be considered living, the mother, without debate, has a life, real experience, memories, and superior development. Try to think of this objectively for a second-- one is entirely a human being, no question, and the other needs whole debates to arrive at a muddled conclusion. Even from a pro-life perspective, one has to know that one is more human than the other."Secondly here you admit that it is a child?"Hardly. It's just more understandable to say "child" than "fetus", as a fetus is just a child in the making."Also the United States fertility rate is at 1.9 children per women which is below replacement level."But fertility rates don't factor in abortions, do they? Abortions keep our population under control. Without debate (2). Can you imagine if we had 1.3 billion more people worldwide? If you think poverty and starvation rates are high now, they'd be mind-boggling if we had 1.3 billion more people. Abortion is doing us a favor (3). "Should we not at least give the child life though. By killing the child before he or she is born does not give the person a chance at a happy life because they are dead."Okay, let's think of fetuses in terms of people. If we had 1.3 billion more people in this world right now, this would be detrimental for humanity as a whole. This is a matter of seeing the forest through the trees: The human race, as we know it, would be much worse off. Poverty, starvation, economics, overpopulation, too many people falling behind and no one getting ahead. Yes, an individual's happiness is what they make it, but there's only so much you can do in a world of almost 10 billion people trying to get ahead too. Our world is actually heading in this direction, but now we have time to develop a system to control it by perhaps inhabiting another planet. We don't have much time, but abortion has bought us the time we need. Not to mention how many cases of abuse all of these originally unwanted children would face. You hear these success stories about people who overcame circumstance to achieve a decent life and do speeches around the country, but untold millions went nowhere and lead absolutely terrible lives not only because of their home life, but because so many people trying to get ahead will inevitably get people behind. I wish this was just a pessimistic view, but it's not. It's real, and you can see it on every street corner in New York City. Making abortion illegal would make that far, far, worse, and that is without a shadow of a doubt."We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..."Remember, at the time, slavery was not only legal, but accepted. Obviously, words can be misinterpreted and changed over a couple of centuries.I look forward to your response.1. http://www.webmd.com...2. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...3. http://www.numberofabortions.com...