RE: Attack at Planned Parenthood Clinic
November 29, 2015 at 7:50 am
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2015 at 7:51 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(November 29, 2015 at 7:41 am)robvalue Wrote: Additional: it seems bizarre that a barely formed human, which couldn't even exist independently, could be considered to have more rights than a fully grown animal in the prime of its life.
Yeah it's utterly absurd but IMO this shouldn't even be about rights this should be about ethics, this should be about mitigating suffering and I can't think of any example where a fetus being aborted would suffer more than the mother would if she was forced to give birth... with the exception of a fetus that is about to be born, but at that point it's more of a baby than a fetus, and I think that that is relevant, whether it's a human baby or human suffering is irrelevant, suffering is suffering, humanity is irrelevant. Let's not be speciesist right?

Furthermore, more life being born isn't always an ethically good thing. Whether it's a human or a non-human creature being born, often the life being born will lead to a life of suffering more than a life of joy.
I personally would never have a child if I thought it would in all likelihood experience a life of misery more than a life of joy.