(May 26, 2014 at 11:55 pm)Beccs Wrote:(May 26, 2014 at 11:51 pm)Heywood Wrote: Nice dodge.
But you can't survive on your own either Beccs. If all the beneficial bacteria were removed from your gut you would die. Does the fact that you are not a viable individual make it okay to kill you?
THat's also a dodge, and, once again, moving the goalposts of the argument.
(May 26, 2014 at 11:55 pm)Heywood Wrote: Is it okay to shoot someone who is hooked up to a heart/lung machine? Those people aren't viable either.
Viability as a rationale for deciding which human beings can be killed and which can't is silly.
Once again you appeal to emotion by calling a fetus a human being.
It's a POTENTIAL human.
An embryo is a living organism or being that is human. Go back to your medical texts and look up the life cycle of a human being. We shouldn't be debating this as it is obvious.