| newborns don't vote and own property either...and voting and owning property are not inalienable rights anyway...but the right to life is...it is ours by virtue of our humanity and only by virtue of our humanity...
Newborns don't have cars or library cards...does that in some way make them less human?
Sperm is simply a cell...it is unique in the fact that it only has half a set of chromosomes...the same is true for eggs, they represent potential life...alone, they are just interesting sorts of cells and are no more valuable than fingernail clippings...once they have joined, however, both sperm and egg cease to exist and their potential has been realized...that is, they have formed a new life...and I agreed with you that the unborn is dependent upon its mother for survival...and I asked you to demonstrate some legal precedent that suggests that dependence is a valid reason to kill another..
If you die of a heart attack, should someone be charged in your death...a spontaneous abortion is simply a natural death..no one is to blame for a natural death...
If you imagine having a child, there is no being that exists in reality...quite unlike an unborn which does exist in reality...I don't know what happens when you stop dreaming a dream, but when an abortion is performed, a life is terminated...
And hitler, stalin, lenin, pol pot, and mao would all agree with you that some must be killed for the sake of those already alive...hell, it is policy in china today..but it doesn't jibe with the premis that the US was founded on which is why Roe will be struck down when it is heard again...
It may be that your sole purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others. |