You can't answer the questions whether abortion is murder or what we ought to do to abortionists who murder other human beings if, in fact, that's what they're doing, unless you answer this first question. Every argument against the full humanity and the full personhood of the unborn child at any stage of its development has failed miserably and that's why it's never brought up. Now, listen, folks, if it is possible to determine that an unborn child is fully human and as fully a person in it essential nature as you and I, then it deserves the same legal protections and legal sanctions against its abuse as you and I do. Now that's logical. That is not a non sequitur .
Human beings ought to be protected equally.
That's the question and the hard truth is, if it is then it ought to be treated equally with us. That's the hard truth and that's why the hard thinking ought to be addressed to this question. Unfortunately, it's almost never discussed. But not only is it the most important question, it's also the one most easily answered, and that is why it's never discussed. Every argument against the full humanity and the full personhood of the unborn child at any stage of its development has failed miserably and that's why it's never brought up.