You can do a lot better than this.
Conflating a natural phenomena with abortion is absurd.
The fundamentalist pro-life position is absurd.
But by their own logic the “child” is “dead” as a direct result of deciding to have unprotected sex just the same as if they decided to take an abortifacient.
These are Russian Roulette odds with 1-5 bullets loaded depending on maternal age at conception.
By that logic you could point out that every single person is going to die, so killing them is natural and inevitable. How can that be a crime?
How old are you again? I would have thought you would have understood that while adults do grow old and die children do not.
Compare these mortality rates:
- Fetus after 20 weeks <1%
- Infants 0.56%
- Children 1-4: 0.024%
- Children 5-14: 0.015%
- Children 15-19: 0.051%
Parents have a responsibility to protect their children until adulthood. The above mortality rates suggest they do. However arbitrarily deciding that a fertilized egg is a child means any parents will have 15-85% of their children die.
Lets be honest here, abortion is about convenience.
For some if we define “convenience” as being too young, or poor, or already have other children depending on the mother.
For others it’s health reasons for the mother or humanely ending a wanted a pregnancy when defects occur.
In all cases it’s the woman’s body and her right to decide to what to do with it - at least until we bring back slavery.
But if we are being honest here let’s be honest. As you stated it’s absurd to care about an aborted fetus so anti-abortion laws really aren’t about protecting “children”. It’s really that it makes a certain set of voters feel self-righteous and willing to vote for the party who bans it so that party can get paid for passing tax cuts for billionaires.
We flush those kids down the toilet because having them around would be a lot of trouble and expense.
A woman takes plan B - the fertilized egg fails to implant and goes down the drain. How many kids just died? There’s no brain so is it 0. It might have split into twins, triplets, quadruplets. So is it 1, 2, 3, or 4? The Bible says life starts at birth so 0?
According to prolifers thats a single kid biology (& the Bible I guess) be damned.
All the arguments about how many die naturally or it just being a clump of cells is what we tell ourselves so we don't feel bad about doing it.
I am simply pointing out the pro-life position is a bunch of horseshit. It fails basic biology, ethics, morality, and even Christianity.
Since I’m scientifically and ethically minded individual I don’t have a problem with spontaneous or medical abortions.
Most of the risk to the baby is gone by 20 weeks. After that there’s something like a working brain by 30 weeks. I would consider it basically a child at that point. By 30 weeks early delivery can happen for medical problems or the parents can decide to abort if defects occur that are incompatible with life. Life and death decisions for a child and/or mother should be left up to the parents and doctor, not politicians.
I know what abortion is, I know the reasons why it exists. The only argument for it that holds water is that sometimes it's the lessor of two evils.
it really seems like you don’t know what it is at all.
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