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Respectfully, I believe the developing life is innocent and doesn't deserve to be killed due to the woman's feelings of hatred and rage. Lock the rapist up for life, but let the innocent life live, because it has done no wrong. No one is weighing the woman's life to the developing human's life, regarding death. As for making laws about it, I don't know. The morality of protecting the developing life is not only contained to Christianity and other religions, but secularism as well. To be honest, I don't know what proceedings actions/laws should be made, if any. Someone must protect the innocent.
Why do you keep labeling the zef as "innocent" as if that supports your argument?
Why is the woman's life more valuable? The fetus is a separate human life form. It therefore has a human nature and, at least potentially, within it all of the full development of a human person. If you get to decide that it is too potential and not actual enough of a human person to be expendable, this seems very arbitrary. Why would such decisions have to stop at the womb?
Although the definition of person has a subjective quality to it, it is reasonable to assume that a person is more than simply genetically human. What other attributes should an actual person have, in your opinion?
First of all, it should be independent and able to support its own existence. That is basic. If an organism cannot even breathe on its own, but instead must obtain oxygen and nutrients from a "host," said host is in control. She makes the decision whether or not to allow the ZEF to live.