Abortion is morally wrong

[bennyboy]

Esquilax, as I have been arguing throughout this thread that in order to be consistent in attributing rights to human beings we must consider fetus' human. My argument is deductive argument and unless you can defeat one of the premises leading to the conclusion the conclusion can be said to be true.

Now lets address your argument, the crux of it, is that of intellectual brain states is the deciding factor in deciding human value. I say this is patently false, for one thing it shifts the idea of human value from intrinsic to extrinsic value which I believe is problematic. For example, coma patients who are not conscious, or baby born with defects have either no right to life or mitigated rights to life. Lets imagine a man whose consciousness shuts down every ten minutes during this time is it permissible to kill him? I would hope your answer would be surely not! Furthermore, since it is a part of a human it is as arbitrary as saying upright walking is the only factor that can deem right to life. Its an arbitrary reasoning through which the sufficient factors of being human are.

Let's imagine the man in the coma never had an idea because he never had a developed brain. Let's imagine he does not have the ability to experience pain for the same reason. Let's imagine that the person responsible for this never-thinking, never-feeling man already has a real life full of real problems. I'd say, pull the plug. The existence and comfort of real people should always be more important than hypothetical ones.

If not, then every moment you spend not shooting your sperm into a viable female constitutes implied murder. So does the use of a condom. So does homosexuality. So does abstinence. But there's a problem. If we all spent all of our time trying to enable the existence of every possible human being, then the world would be covered with unwanted and unnecessary human beings. And since we've moved on from uncivilized tribes of thousands to developed nations of many millions, the enabling of all potential human beings must be considered an evil, rather than a good.