Dr. Warren Hern, a director of Boulder Abortion Clinic in Boulder, Colorado, is the author of the abortion how to manual, Abortion Practice. We know something dies in an abortion. That question can only be answered by ascertaining the difference between a thing and a person. Imagine your favorite human. It s not as easy as it might first appear.
Most people recognize two plus two equals four.
It s a given until someone comes along and questions it. Then it takes several pages of mathematical notation to prove the equation. In the same way the personhood of a human is usually assumed. Every human has an intrinsic value which is equal to every other human. This is a truth our American Founding Fathers accepted as intuitively obvious.