Psalm 137:9

[KevinM1]

You clearly said a person IS their body...

Which makes a fetus a person by your own definition.

A tumor doesn't have a brain, isn't that what you believe makes one an individual? So stop with the false equivalencies

An embryo doesn't have a brain until about week five, and it doesn't have more brains than a fly for a while after that. Just sayin'.

Yup.

I find it telling that Huggy is so very desperate to tell me what I actually believe, and when I point out that he's not entirely correct in those assumptions, he tells that I'm engaging in false equivalencies. Protip: a false equivalency is when you point to something that is unlike another, like a planet that is utterly unlike earth in every way in order to say something is plausible. A zygote-to-embryo is far more akin to a tumor or cyst than not.

To stop beating around the bush, I'm okay with abortion until the end of the first trimester. After that, I'm only okay with it in the case of a medical emergency. For absolute clarity, being "okay with it" doesn't mean I'm actively rooting for, wishing for, or happy about the decision. However, I understand that my POV is limited. I am not a woman, and I've never been in a position where I've had to seriously consider abortion. For me, it's an intellectual exercise, and I'm not comfortable telling people who are actually living with the decision (or the possibility of having to make it) that they're wrong and bad. I might be an asshole sometimes, but I'm not a monster.

I hope this concludes this particular tangent.