Termination Human Life

K.J. Good arguments you make, but flawed and here's why. First of all, abortion is murder because it is the deliberate termination of a human life. If a new born dies from "crib death", it is not murder. If that new born is aborted by being suffocated with a pillow, it is murder. This is the difference between miscarriage and abortion.

Secondly, if you are going to exclude the fetus from being a person based on the fact that it is reliant on its mother for life, you then have to exclude all those who are dependant on penicillin, or hooked up to life support, or kidney dialysis machines. These people can not exist without their means of support, yet we still know that they are human beings.

In short, our humanity is not determined by our degree of dependency, it is determined by what we are at our essense...human beings. As well, the point of viability is in constant change. 40 years ago a 25 week old fetus was unable to survive on its own. Are you trying to say that forty years ago she was just a "mass of cell" (like we all are, really) and today she is a human being worthy of life? Technology may well succeed in developing an artificial womb. Then, the unborn will have no reliance on its mother at all. Would you then be willing to grant us the right to life at conception? You see, technology does not determine our humanity either we are simply human beings, or we are not.

There is no way to legitimately rationalize the act of killing an unborn human being. The fact that we are unique human beings from the moment of conception is the over-riding, all-important issue in the abortion debate and it is the fact that gives the ultimate victory to the pro life side. If it can be proven that the unborn is not a human being, abortion is morally justified. Unfortunately for the pro choice crowd, science disproved that claim hundreds of years ago.

We were all fetuses at one point in our lives and we can all be thankful that our mothers chose life.

-M.B.