Characterizing the Abortion Discussion

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I am in no way religious, nonetheless, I have much difficulty answering the question clearly.

People usually assume that one can close out the debate by saying that one has not at that point developed the neural network to make us human.

However, people agree upon that killing a newborn baby is a full case of murder, but rarely hesitate to eat a pig, who both has a higher intelligence and a less ambiguous consciousness.

Thus, one has to come to the conclusion that there is another characteristic that makes the murder of a young child as significant (if not more) as the murder of an adult.

What distinguishes murder as a crime worse than simple violence, in our morality, is taking away potential lifetime from the victim, taking away to develop himself further, erasing his futur self. This independently of actual capability of worrying about such a subject, as the case of infants or small children reminds us.

Already at the stage of a fetus, much of what defines the person that is to be is established - genetic material, of course, but also some environmental influence, passing through the mother. An abortion most definitely takes away the right of said futur individual to exist, in lack or absence of a fully developed brain.