Attack at Planned Parenthood Clinic

[Edwardo Piet]

As with all these issues, the fact that you will always run into is that there are two people involved in any of these situations, two humans, and both have rights. The rights of one of the humans might conflict with the rights of the other. For instance, the right to life of the fetus might conflict with the right of the woman to do what she wants with her own body, if she wants to abort it. In these conflicts, I side with the right which is more important, and in this case, the right to life pretty much trumps all other rights, because without it, all other rights are easily taken away

When it comes to rights of the fetus, the fact of the matter is that fetuses don't have rights.

But I guess you're arguing that they should right?

Fair enough. But should they have rights simply because you consider them to be a "human"? And do you consider a bunch of human cells a "human"?

Surely if other apes become evolved enough and intelligent enough to participate in our society it would make more sense to give them rights and not allow them to suffer, than to give a bunch of human cells rights when they can't even suffer? Let's not be speciesist here...

If other human races couldn't interbreed and were thereby considered separate species, it wouldn't make it any more right to discriminate against them: Speciesism is just as bad as racism. It's all about the ethics of mitigating suffering, the "rights" of a bunch of cells has nothing to do with it, regardless of their species.