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People call it a fetus so that they don't have to consider that it is actually a child. If you abort a child... well, that sounds like killing a child. So call it something different to make it more acceptable. It's a baby. A child. A human being. Abort it if that is your decision but don't pretend it's not a human being. Coward.
No, it's not. Not until it can think for itself. Up until that point it is a collection of cells that has the potential to be a human being.
Just like every sperm and egg have the potential to be human beings.
By your logic, a woman commits murder every time she has a period, and a man commits mass-murder every time he "loses mastery of his domain".
Now, if you're talking about late-term abortions, where the fetus has brain waves, and is in fact a full living being, then I'm with you; but a first-term fetus is NOT a person. No matter how many times you say it is, it is not.
Now, again, this is not a top issue of mine, but I am frankly sick and tired of the hyperbole on this issue. Give it an effing rest already. It's time to reach a compromise on this and be done with it already.
Newborn babies do not think for themselves, nice of you to admit that you do not think they are human.
Newborn babies have brainwaves that control motor function. They move and cry appropriately in reaction to various external stimuli.
That is otherwise known as "thinking". Sure, it's not Einstein-ian level thinking, but it is thinking nonetheless.
And that is MUCH different from a blob of cells sitting in a woman's ovaries that has the potential to develop into something else.
So, again, please, enough with the hyperbole.