| your analogy of killing someone in your basement is a stretch.. the zygote is a part of the woman's body. it belongs to her body. does she not have the right to choose whether/not this entity stays within her and grows until birth? the crux of the issue as i see it is whether/not the woman has the rights to control her own body.
how do you define life? i think that question supercedes the one you've asked in this thread. is life defined by a clump of cells, or by something that thinks, has a conscience, etc? the classic characterization of when life begins was at the quickening, when the fetus would kick around in the mother's womb. that sort of event is undeniably human.
what about a zygote? even further, a sperm and an egg could also be termed alive, by the same notion as a clump of cells could.
i completely oppose late term abortions, but i support early term abortions. my definition of life (regarding this topic) must differ from yours. |