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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Up to 75% of all conceptions never make it to term for one reason or another (much of them never even implanting in the uterus). Human reproduction is one of the least efficient modes of procreation in the animal/plant kingdom.  If there is a god who sends a soul into every embryo at the moment of conception, he/she is the biggest abortionist of them all.[/quote]

This is a ludicrous rationale - and I say this as someone who is pro-choice. There is a difference between a miscarriage that results for natural reasons and one an abortion which is the result of external intervention.[/quote]

What is the difference?  That one is caused by man (or woman) and one is caused by God?

For many of us it is insignificant, irrelevant or incorrect to say abortion and miscarriage are different.

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In both instances the life of a fetus is terminated. But to equate the body rejecting a fetus for whatever reason with someone surgically ending the life of a fetus seems incongruous.

Not the best analogy but a person who is terminally ill dying of natural causes cannot be equated with same individual whose life is terminated by a physician or a relative or even by the individual's own action.

We can disagree in both instances whether the affected individual has that right but there is a difference between something happening naturally and through external intervention.[/quote]

The point is that anti-choice fanatics fetishize the embryo by stating a that baby begins at conception, whereas to point out how utterly precarious and even toss-away life is at that early stage is to show that nature/God has no such qualities qualms about the sanctity of a zygote and its supposed equivalence to the life of a human being who is already in the world.[/quote]

The difference is not in how the baby is affected.  The difference is the hardening of the person who does the act.  The damage is done to anybody who kills.  In one case, no adult person is harderning themselves.  In the other case, both the doctor, the mother, and any nurses involved are.[/quote]

Yes.  We are an animal that has a natural urge to kill each other.  We need to do everything we can to keep that urge as dominant as possible.  We can not risk awakening it.[/quote]

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