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The OP is all over the place, to be honest. For instance, I am not in favor of any government funds for abortions. None at all.There's a lot going on in this question, so I'll single it out.
If I thought that a fetus before it is a viable being outside the wound was even remotely equivalent to a 'child', then yes, I would find something morally wrong with it.
As most abortions are done long before a fetus is a viable being outside of a woman's womb, I find nothing morally wrong with them.
Yes.
The male body is also designed to create life.
YouTube - Every Sperm is Sacred {Monty Python's Meaning of Life}
Thank you for your straight up answer. I just completely disagree with you and that is what the op is all about. ....
But, we seem to have focused on the 'what is life' issue brought up in the OP as well. So, I'll stick with that.
Sure I am. My hangnail is human - has human DNA, the cells can replicate, etc. - and I want that destroyed. My friends appendix was human, too. It had DNA, it's cells could replicate, so it needed to be destoyed as well.
Invoking that wonderfully warm and fuzzy term, 'life', when discussing this topic is all well and fine, but one needs to be a lot more specific when using it in this topic. The word human is also an adjective. I have a human hangnail. I have ahuman spleen. If one wishes to use it as a vowel, as I suspect you do, a human being is more specific and leads to less confusion.
Yes, it is the big question as it applies to a human being, because a lot of human tissue is not at all viable when separated from the mother being..... And how do you define 'viable'? Isn't that the big question? ....
It looks like you've gone ahead and defined viable on your own. Perhaps this is where we should focus for the moment as I say a newborn is indeed viable..... A newborn is not 'viable' on its own, .....
I really respect you Si, but I see that whole post as a cop out. You're evading the question by talking about hang nails and appendixes, which have nothing to do with the conversation, and I'm sure you already know that. Why can't anyone who has this position talk honestly about it, that's what I don't get? We're talking about human life, a baby, a separate living human being, not a hang nail or an organ.
I asked you to tell me what you defined as 'viable' and who ultimately gets to have their definition imposed on society? I understand if you don't want to answer, it's just frustrating whenever someone on the opposite side won't have an honest discussion about it. I relate to you in a lot of other ways, and I'm genuinely trying to understand why you have the outlook that you do, but perhaps that's just not 'viable' either.