The reason religion is so powerful

[Pat Mustard]

In other words, you value the rights of a blastocyst over a person with a story, hopes, dreams, loved ones, an inner life, and everything else that really makes a human being human. Such a champion of human dignity you are!

In the event of a fire, would you save an elderly person over an infant on the basis that they have a story, loved ones, and a coherent inner life? I don't think you would, given that society places value on children (but maybe you would). Perhaps the issue here has to do with faulty object permanence: The younger the individuals the more value is placed on their life, until it crosses into the womb and becomes "out of sight out of mind."

p.s. I didn't realize there were two abortion threads going on at once lol.

Tell me, why is the "right to life" of a foetus more valuable and improtant than the right to life of a living child? Because the same groups that promote forced birth and the criminalisation of abortions in all circumstances are also supportive of parents "rights" to murder their children through medical negligence for "deeply held religious reasons".