New Iowa Law Restricts Abortion To Before Most Women Know They're Pregnant

[Rev. Rye]

You are the one who moved the discussion to a question of when personhood begins. Ultimately, my reasoning for keeping abortion legal is a utilitarian one, because, quite frankly, without it, I strongly suspect all moral issues end up devolving into the dead-end question of "how dare you worry about YOUR selfish needs and desires when you can worry about MY selfish needs and desires?" It's not about wanting to kill fetuses. It's about wanting to make sure mothers don't have to die trying to kill them. And yes, when it's more or less insensate (which, during the stage at which the vast majority of abortions happen, it is), I have no trouble whatsoever prioritizing the mother over the fetus inside her. Yes, it does suck that this is the choice we have to choose, but wanting for the rest of the world to be different is simply no more plausible than expecting to be able to jump out my roof and fly by my own wing power.

Also, when the cerebral cortex goes, my research tells me nobody recovers (this is why this isn't moving the goalposts, since what I said earlier applies to the cerebral cortex specifically), so your argument comparing those with subpar cognition to something which doesn't have ANY still does not stand (even in this case, the brainstem activity does not seem to even count as cognition).