Why I Am Pro-Life

[Slave]

Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights

Personhood is a matter of philosophical consideration and has no basis in scientific fact. A human ebryo is a human life. It isn't beetle. It isn't a monkey. We can't get past the 'life begins at conception' argument like a previous poster asked, because we have one camp claiming that an embryo is not a human life, and another camp claiming it is.

The dividing line between pro-life and pro-choice is that of sentience/personhood. You can't stake a scientific claim in this, because as I said, it is a philosophical question.

Unless anyone here is able to prove to me that an embryo is not human and not alive, your arguments fall on deaf ears. I don't care about personal conjecture. I care about facts.

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Unlike slave, I'm quite happy with the law as it stands, with abortion legal before an age of sentience.

This wasn't in direct reference to abortion being legal or illegal, but the lawful ramifications of declaring abortion as the unlawful termination of human life and what that would mean for women who had miscarriages. This is a huge fault in my rationale.

I would like for abortions to be kept legal for women who need them, as I do consider this an exemption. If a woman's life is in direct danger from pregnancy, then her rights trump that of her growing baby. Doctors often make the decision to save one life and end another (the word for this particular event escapes me right now but I'll remember it later) - this would be no different.