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No one really believes that aborting a fetus is the same as murdering a child.  Look at how people reacted to the little kids being shot in Uvalde.  Does anyone really think that was the same as abortion?    4,000 embryos were lost due to a power outage at a fertility clinic in Cleveland in 2018, a loss greater than 9/11, but while it made the news, if anyone REALLY thought that embryos were the same as children, we would have a national day of mourning and remembrance every year.  We don't, because we don't.  If you were in a fertility clinic and there was a fire, would you save 100 embryos out of the freezer or a baby in the waiting room?  The fetus matters, but the actual person who is actually alive matters more.  The existing framework under Roe and Casey recognized that, and accorded with the moral intuitions of most people -- early on, abortion should be available with minimal restrictions.  Later on, states could restrict it more.  And frankly, NO ONE is having abortions for funsies in the third trimester.  Those are wanted pregnancies where something went wrong.  There's a severe abnormality incompatible with life, or the fetus is dying, or the woman's life or health is at risk.  It doesn't matter if YOU have a "hard time accepting it," especially because you seem to have no idea about why women have abortions in the third trimester.  [/quote]

I firmly believed this for most of my life. I went to rallies and marches. Have you not seen churches with crosses on the lawn memorializing the number of babies aborted each day in America? This is exactly why a lot of people are so against it. [b]Because they believe it is murder of innocents[/b] is why they bomb abortion clinics. (Which is, of course, a heinous crime and I feel it goes without saying I condemn that violence and most pro-life people I know do also, but anyway.) You don't have to understand or agree, but you don't get to say what other people believe.[/quote]

DP.

But unless you would save a bunch of embryos and let a child die, you don't actually and truly believe that embryos are as much "life" as a child. They think believe that life starts at conception but they don't.

I guess that's not totally true though, some really might save the embryos. [/quote]

Fair enough. But saying life begins at conception (and ending it is murder) and all lives have equal value are not the same thing. A child and an elderly person are "equally" human in my eyes but I still might prioritize saving the child...like programming a self-driving car to avoid some people over others.[/quote]

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