Gallup: More Americans “Pro-Life” Than “Pro-Choice” for First Time

[Rath]

appolose said:

Rath said:

And what makes the anti-abortionists right? Nothing. Not that the pro-abortionists are right either.

In this debate nobody is right because there is no universal definition of life, its generally agreed that by the time a baby is born it is human and that before it is conceived it is not, in between is a slightly grey area. Now what gives the anti-abortionists the right to push their views of when life begins on an extremely large segment of the population who believe differently?

 

So, if half the population considered a certain group of people not human, the other half is just supposed to allow them to do whatever they want to that group of people?  Reminds me of slavery.

 

They are very different situations.

All different kinds of people, negroes, caucasians, orientals or aboriginals, display self awareness, consciousness, the ability to feel pain, emotions and many other things that foetuses simply don't. The problem is that there is a lack of agreement on when people become people. I personally take the point of where they gain the ability (or at least the necessary pieces to have the ability) to feel pain, as it is the first of the things that I consider to make up a person that develops.