I personally do not believe in abortion...but I respect those that feel it is invasive to their choices to ban it, so my tolerance for the beliefs of others has me supporting the pro choice side.
However....the question is not really about choice. It is, and has always been, whether or not abortion is murder...whuich stems from "when does life begin."
now...you say "a bunch of cells" is not a human life.....I agree.
However...if that "bunch of cells" is dependant upon a human being to grow...via the umbilical chord/placenta....then maybe it is not just a bunch of cells?
Look at it this way.....what other than a human being requires human antibodies and human blood cells to survive?
So you see, it is not just the religious right that feel that way...many form a science background see a fetus as a human being...from a scientific standpoint.
Unless, of course, you can cite what other than a lviing human requires human antibodies to survive....
All I know, is that a newly conceived egg does not feel pain, therefore, without suffering, the death of that egg can not be said to be immoral. Conscious suffering is what largely defines immorality to me.
It is to inflict suffering unnecessarily on a being that does not choose it or does not have the ability to defend against it (e.g., factory farmed animals... why don't we talk about their suffering? Go vegan
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I do see a sufficiently formed fetus as a human. I just don't know at what point a human is a human, and hence the crux of the problem. Yet I will universally deny the theist position that life starts at conception, and based on that theism, legislate against it. That is immoral, because you now forcing people to do what they do not want to, when it is their body.