To abort or not to abort

[Jacob(smooth)]

Ok, so in your view should a zygote have the same entitlement to protection as an embryo at, say, 5 weeks?

In my view any being with a future expectation of personhood should be given moral protection. That does not mean we need to go out of our way to insure its survival. It means we should not take action to insure its destruction.

An interesting moral stance. Does it extend to actual people? So for eg, if I see a child fall off a train platform onto the track, do I have a moral obligation to lift the child clear? (go out of my way to ensure its survival)? Or is it enough not to take action to ensure its destruction (push him off).

IUDs work by impeding implantation of a fertilised egg. Is this taking action to ensure its destruction?

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Ok, so in your view should a zygote have the same entitlement to protection as an embryo at, say, 5 weeks?

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Most surgery is.

Yeah and surgery is only done if necessary for health.
Nobody is doing surgery for funz.

Or to look different...