Well at least to me a fetus is not really a person yet. Also let’s not forget that some abortions are for women impregnated by their rapist so in that case I think it’s definitely justified to get an abortion.
What makes a person a person?
To me a person is a human who is fully developed or at least close to it and birthed into the world.
What does fully developed mean? The frontal lobe does not fully develop until one’s late twenties. Are people not people before then?
Who decides what falls under that definition?
I’m pretty sure the people who have knowledge of trimesters and other things of the like.
Who decides why a line should be drawn between various trimesters, and not, say, at conception, when a unique genetic code is created?
In the case of rape, why is it justifiable to end a third party’s life (that of a not fully developed human being who is completely dependent on his mother, but that also describes a one-year old) because they are a product of violence done to you?
Because the woman didn’t choose to partake in sexual intercourse and the woman didn’t choose to bear a child. I don’t think a raped woman should have to take on such a huge responsibility because of mere misfortune. I mean wouldn’t these woman had enough control taken away from them?
Why should the helpless fetus/embryo have even its chance to have a life taken from it? Adoption is also a possibility, though I admit that it is not that simple.