Then why does society think it has standing to prosecute a mother who gets tired of a 3-day-old infant crying all the time and dumps said infant in a dumpster to die because her boyfriend gave her an ultimatum to lose the baby or lose him? Just because the baby crossed an arbitrary line, all of a sudden society values him/her more than the exhausted mother does and brings charges? Shouldn't she have the same autonomy and self-determination to decide she doesn't want to be a mother that she had just a few days or weeks earlier?That value should be left up to the owner of the baby factory tasked with growing it. Some people look at their unborn offspring as sacred, while others don't. I can understand both positions but what I don't understand is forcing those who don't believe every zygote is sacred into growing it.
Here's why I think birth is this yuuuge deal. Before birth, you can't see a baby, you can't hear a baby, you can't hold a baby, so cutting said baby to pieces can be done without anyone having to deal with the reality of what's being done, except for those charged with making sure all the pieces come out. After birth, it's a different story. Someone has to hold a squirming baby, see and hear a squirming baby, and watch the death doctor deliberately kill the baby. Out of sight, out of mind.