VGPolyglot said:
As it is now it's just an extension of the woman. It cannot survive without the woman, so killing it is about the same as burning your fingers and killing a few cells. |
The woman's body would disagree with you, as demonstrated when the complex system shielding the fetus fails and the mother's immune system promptly kills it. From the very start it has a unique set of chromosomes in the process of fully expressing themselves. Everything we are as a physical life form stems from the expression of our unique genetic code on a foundational level. That understanding of human life grounded in our genetic code pushes the definition of life very far back into the pregnancy. And that's all aside from any philosophical or religious objections one could raise.
