(May 22, 2014 at 2:00 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote:Half potential a human being is not a full potential human being.(May 22, 2014 at 10:46 am)Heywood Wrote: I tend to ignore questions with obvious answers.
A future person is a person that exists in the future.
Does this include every sperm and egg cell? Every single one is half of a potential 'future person', every single one is alive, and every single one is just one tiny developmental tiptoe underneath a fertilized egg. If aborting a zygote is killing a human being, what makes masturbation and menstruation less heinous?
Like half a TV is not a full TV... heck, half a TV will not even work!
It seems it's ok to have an IUD or condom, which prevent one half from reaching the other half... but once the two halves come together, you're literally screwed (in Heywood's view, of course).
I prefer to give it a cool off period to decide... it seems 20 weeks is a good limit, as it's when a nervous system seems to become in working order and so, before that, there's no pain, no awareness whatsoever by the fetus... just a denial of service.