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Quote by: carriew a fertilized ovum (zygote) is a human being same as you or I. it is a being in a state of development same as my 5 yr old or 2 yr old. or you or I. its just really really small... |
I find it sad that some people are so blinded by religious ideology that they cannot see the differences between a human person (capable of feeling, of consciousness, of self-awareness, and much more) and a single cell or clump of cells. To me, this is a callous, unfeeling, unloving way of seeing humans. It think it ominous for American society that so many see things that way. Even worse, some are willing to kill other humans who provide abortions because of a twisted morality that elevates clumps of cells over the value of actual humans. But most aren't that twisted -- although they would outlaw abortion, thereby elevating the value of those clumps of cells over the lives of some women whose lives are threatened by their pregnancies, over the health of many more, over the well-being of countless more, and over the rights of millions to control their own bodies. And if anti-choice mafia is successful, it will elevate the value of the clumps of cells over the lives of thousands of women who will return to back-alley abortionists to procure their abortions. I long for the day when society can look at such things from a human perspective, and not from the point of view of a sterile, abstract philosophy, based largely on religious ideology. If you don't believe in abortion, don't have one; but stop trying to force your religious ideology onto the rest of us.