soblessed said:
I agree with Nisa it is murder and no one knows the pain and torement the mother who got the abortion will have to live with for the rest of her life. Not only that but there are risks involved with an abortion.
Killing a embryo is not murder because it is not a human.
If you want to call brand spanking new embryo a human, then I think that kind of devalues what a human is.
In "murdering" such a human, you're merely killing a handful of cells. That they can't think, feel pain, etc, is absolutely relevant.
It's a potential human, but not a human yet. Is there some specific thing that happens at conception that makes it "murder", when moments before, killing the separate sperm and egg would not have been murder?
Legal definition of life aside, for a woman, that child's life begins when they consider it to be a life- in other words, when a woman percieves that this thing inside of them has a face, character, name, etc. etc.
I agree that there is a problem of knowing where to draw the line - you would want to err on the side of keeping the foetus, if anything.
Being Pro-Life/Pro-Choice then really this is just an argument about religion.