Why I Am Pro-Life

[CleanShavenJesus]

Premise #4: Morality is not restricted to classification of species.

Throwing a kitten off a cliff for fun is often seen as wrongdoing, would you agree? Wanton cruelty toward other animals who don't have the same higher brain function but are nonetheless beings that appear to experience pain, fear and personal connection is often viewed as wrong. Now we can get bogged down into "is hunting for food immoral when you could be a vegan?" or "is experimenting on animals to find cures for human diseases wrong?" but my basic point is that we have moral consideration for non-humans.

Question: What's the distinction based on?

Why do we have moral obligations toward kittens and not trees? Or bacteria cells? All three are "alive", are they not?

Why do some people feel it's OK to pull the plug on a brain-dead chronically ill patient but not OK to execute a retarded person so they "won't be a burden"?

The classification of the species of what I'm looking at is irrelevant, for reasons already discussed in premise #4.

I like your post a lot, but I have an issue with your points starting here.

You say species is irrelevant, but I say it is not. The fact that there are people who look upon a fetus and see it as human will want this fetus to live because of that. They seek to preserve life, human life. There are even people in this thread who see the fetus as a human being and therefore do not want it to be killed, even if it's not self-aware.

Although I do agree with your post for he most part, the classification of a fetus as human is extraordinarily critical for a lot of people when it comes to this topic, therefore species is relevant to the discussion.