RicOlie_2 said:
What does fully developed mean? The frontal lobe does not fully develop until one’s late twenties. Are people not people before then?Yeah, I probably used the term “fully developed” wrong. What I mean is human that is fully (or close to it) developed in the womb and is ready (or close to it) to life
What do you mean by “life”? A fetus is objectively alive.
Who decides why a line should be drawn between various trimesters, and not, say, at conception, when a unique genetic code is created?
Because there are a great many developments that happen post conception that actually makes the fetus more than just semi living genetic code. So to speak.
If development is continuous, where can a line be drawn? And who decides what developments make the embryo/fetus/baby more than a “semi-living genetic code”?
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.
With adoption a person can be put in a toxic environment in which they can be abused. Furthermore they can have feelings of inadequacy and abandonment.
I don’t think that argument holds much water. This sort of thing doesn’t just happen in adoption, and all the people I have met who were adopted were given as much love as care as if they were being raised by their own parents (assuming they wanted the child). It’s a much better deal than being killed in the womb, in my limited experience.
And again why should a woman lose more control over her body? It’s as if she’s being punished for being raped. How I see it it’s pretty much telling her “I know you’ve been through a traumatic event and all but deal with it for the sake of the unborn baby you did not ask for”
This argument isn’t a bad one when the pregnancy is terminated early on. Whether the woman likes it or not, however, the embryo/fetus is a separate human being from herself, and I don’t believe it should be her choice to end its life. My argument is founded largely on the concept that every human life has equal value, regardless of what stage or condition it is in, and that only God can make the decision to end a life. If you don’t agree on that point, we have to agree to disagree.
Regardless, less than 1% of abortions are due to rape, so it is a relatively minor issue compared to “convenience” abortions, or those which occur due to the mother’s unreadiness, or lack of desire to have a child.
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/abreasons.html