NGNM85
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Legally it may not be murder, but morally it is....
I believe that when it comes to abortion that my morals need to be reflected in the laws to protect the lives of the unborn. I don't think someone's personal morals should ever justify the killing of another human life. It's no different when a man in his own moral code believes that it's ok to kill another person for sleeping with his wife or for offending him.
Legal abortion is not restricted to just viability, and even if a fetus isn't viable I do not believe that justified killing it. We know that the fetus will become a viable human being in time. I think this would be similar to pulling the plug on someone who is kept alive via a life support system when we know that within a few weeks that the person on life support will make a full recovery.
Again, you have to provide a cogent scientific definition of the sufficient conditions for a human being that would justify this contention. You can try, by all means, best of luck, but I'll tell you right now, it's impossible.
You should be aware that 86% of abortions are performed before the fetal stage.
The comparison with the coma is completely inaccurate. The coma guy, especially if it's just a temporary situation, he isn't permenently in a vegetative state, is still a living human being, he's just temporarily out of touch. The human embryo, in most cases, even into the fetal stage, still doesn't yet meet the sufficient conditions of a human being, and never has. Admittedly, eventually, the fetus does meet these conditions. However, fetuses at this late stage are almost never aborted without a medical necessity. It's less than 4%. Though, if it makes you feel any better, regarding that less-than-4%, I would say that the fetus should simply be removed as it has an upwards of 90% chance of survival on it's own, anyhow.