NYcarbineer
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War, poverty, death penalty, sickness, old age and other things also ends a life.You mean most of the time if the woman takes care of herself and her baby in the womb, a child will be born. To a lesser extent, the resulting child will have no birth defects.I'm an evolutionary biologist and yes the fetus in the womb is human and has been human since fertilization. Biologically a fetus becomes a child around 20-24 weeks which is the point at which most can survive outside the womb with a lot of medical help.
As for when life begins, it never ended. The egg and sperm are both alive and are BOTH human.
You can attach a hundred names to the different stages of development in a pregnancy, if left alone, in the end you will have a child. You may as well call them, child day 1 through child 275 or what ever, it's all semantics, if left undisturbed by man or nature, you will get a living, breathing infant.
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The stages are important cuz you are trying to stop abortions using false semantics.
There are no semantics, abortion ends a life, nothing else to say.
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Abortions are justified on the basis of individual freedom and human rights. The woman decides, not you.
Rationalize it any way you want, it is what it is, taking a life.
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So? Some of us are able to tell the difference between a zygote and a 20 year old man. Are you?