Good grief did you used to work at the Daily Mail?
Exactly which part of my analysis is incorrect?
As I have said already. I am not an "Anti-Abortionist"
But I do seem to be pretty much the only person here (Apart form
actual anti-abortionists) who is willing to accept an abortion for what it actually is!
The deliberate ending of a Human life.
Now, I am not wishing to comment specifically on the US position. But when watching this, remember that the UK age limit is 24 weeks.
(Note, there is nothing gruesome or unpleasant in this clip)
Also, check this out.
(Again, nothing gratuitously gruesome or unpleasant)
https://www.babycenter.com/fetal-development-week-by-week
Now, what I am looking for are arguments supporting the idea that killing a Fetus by terminating a pregnancy at 22 weeks is not killing a "person".
Indeed, it is hard to see how killing a fetus at 12 weeks is not doing so. But if we assume a 12 week fetus does not qualify as being a "Person", then at what point between the two time points does the magical transformation from #JBOC>Person take place and what defines this event?
Now, if no such point can be established, then it has to be accepted that a 12 week fetus is
also a "Person". Again, how can it not be (Arguments please)
Now it starts to get a bit more difficult defining the "magic moment" at which the JBOC>Person transition occurs between conception and 12 weeks.
As we track back from 12 weeks, the fetus ceases to look particularly human or even like anything recognizable really. It really does look just like JBOC.
But is it, and at what point does that JBOC>Person transition take place? How can one define it? Again, is it even possible to do so.
And again, In fact, it is probabally impossible to do so (Though, yet again, please, feel free to try)
Now, if there is no such clearly definable "Magic Moment" then the logical conclusion is that "Personhood" must exist from conception.
And while "Most" conceptions fail, for entirely natural reasons, to come to term. Any wilful intervention to end a pregnancy must therere, logically, qualify as an Homicide.
Now, there are plenty of entirely justifiable reasons to commit a Homicide. Homicide is not necessarily either illegal or unjustifiable.
But it is what it is
And you cant just ignore this and claim that it isnt a homicide on the grounds that the "Victim" isn't a person just because they are very small and only half baked!
Oh and another thing. the comparison between an Abortion and that of withdrawing life support from a coma patient are not equivalent
To use a bizarre analogy. There is a very big difference between blowing up a rocket carrying a low earth orbit satellite during the launch phase and blowing the satellite during its final reentry phase a couple of minute before it was going to hit the ground anyway!