Atheists, the death penalty and abortion...

[Mystic]

Here is a reasoning I came up with with regards to my other point, that it's not like prevention pills.

Well a human life is distinguished from lower life forms such as a cow, in that the latter, humans don't believe it's huge crime (over all don't) to kill and eat it. The reason has to do with it's intelligence.

Now a baby doesn't have much intelligence, as far as intelligence goes, it's not too advanced.

But still we don't kill a baby and consider it insignificant like that of killing an animal (be it wrong or right), because we give value to what it can become and the journey it can go through.

Now if this is true, the same logic should apply to why we should give respect to an embryo, because it's on it's way to life...it's heading there.

Moreover, the genetics are determining a specific person...it's on it's way to a specific person.

This is not the same decision of a couple deciding not have a baby.

The instinct of humans is that human life is a journey well worth preserving. Even humans who believe in after life don't believe it's ok to stop a human from the journey of life.

Now an embryo is very much on it's way to life.

A baby is not like us with the same intelligence, but it's on it's way. This is why we don't consider killing it, like killing an animal even if the animal is just as intelligent as that baby.

Anyways, all this cold thinking and justifying is not the real reason.

There is something more to it - something that I can't explain - but every part of my soul tells me it's wrong.