RE: Why I Am Pro-Life
July 29, 2013 at 2:47 pm
(This post was last modified: July 29, 2013 at 2:48 pm by Rahul.)
(July 29, 2013 at 2:01 pm)Slave Wrote: The fingernail argument is lame and fails to take into account genetic determinism. A baby has a heart, lungs, fingernails, eyelashes and a circulatory system. The blastocyst you had none of these things, and yet the blastocyst you is exactly that collection of cells that gave rise to all those specialized parts of the baby that eventually got born. Fingernails do not an embryo make.
This fails the logic test for one main reason. A blastocyst is not going to give rise to all those specialized parts of the baby that eventually got born. A blastocyst is potentially going to do that. There's no "eventuality" to it. Eventuality implies inevitably.
You are looking backwords. You are looking at a living human and retroactively thinking, "What if someone had aborted that person? They would no longer exist."
That person already exists so you can't use that as an example.
Aborting a fetus isn't killing anyone. It's only removing a possibility.
If you believe removing the possibility of someone existing holds weight in this discussion then you have to admit that your not having our unborn, potential child is equally as wrong as having an abortion.
So when do we meet?
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