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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]90+% of abortions are performed in the first trimester. The zygote, blastocyst, embryo, or fetus aren't human at that point unless you have some superstitious belief in a "soul." And, even if you do, that's no basis for a law, applicable to the superstitious and the rational alike, restricting reproductive freedom and forcing a woman to use her body to bring the fetus to term. [/quote]

Aren’t human? What species, then? [/quote]

The same species of creature that “pro life” people have been fine with executing for all manner of slights and sins since ancient times.  What kind of creature did the Catholic Church burn at the stake? Or the Protestant majorities here execute for stealing a piece of bread? What kind of creature did Godly men enslave and then fight for the right to keep doing it?[/quote]

Um, they’re all humans, obviously. I didn’t say anything about capital punishment, burning people at the stake, if my religion. I just pointed out that of course a zygote/embryo/fetus is human (even if you don’t think it counts as a person). It’s certainly not a fish or a cat or a cactus. [/quote]

I think we all agree to that. Yes, embryos are a primitive form of human. It doesn’t mean they are entitled to live at someone else’s bodily expense. It doesn’t even mean they are entitled to live, as we as a society have decided all kinds of humans are not entitled to life, including the examples cited above as well as others, like 10-year old black children who like to play with toy guns.

Call it whatever you want, but we kill people every day and it’s not murder. We call it “Justified homicide” and as a society, we’re all generally pretty cool with it and we have been for a long time. [/quote]

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