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Originally Posted by JinnKai
Yes. In order to be a morally consistent (philosophically and practically) pro-choice person, you'd have to believe that fetuses were subhuman or non-human.
Otherwise, you'd be arguing philosophically that it is okay to kill the cells, as they are not human, but feeling practically that it couldn't be aborted, because it had some sort of special meaning (like being human)?
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Again, this is a black and white approach to a grey issue. I think one can attach value to an embryo or fetus in recognizing the potential to become a human being, without necessarily equating it to a human baby carried to term. The potential for life carries a value all of it's own; abortion may be the proper response when the expected value of that life is less than the trauma (or even inconvenience) caused to the family by carrying it to term and birthing it.
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