I wish we could abort this thread...
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Genetically speaking, any fetus is not the mother's body.
The DNA is human DNA.
Therefore, it is the killing of another human creature. Shifting goalposts aside about what a real human is, the question here becomes when is the killing of another human creature an act which should be legal?
Additionally, at least in USA, neither women nor men have a Constitutional Right to do what they want with their own bodies, much less anyone else's. Examples of things outlawed yet not stricken down by US Supreme Court as Unconstitutional: prostitution, drug use, suicide. Putting aside the prostitution and suicide to focus on drug use: the laws of the USA specifically prohibit you from taking medicines which can save your life without a written prescription from a doctor. Infection? Sorry, you have to spend $100 and see a doctor before you get your penicillin.
So the people boiling it down to a woman's "right" to deal with "her own" "medical issues" simplify a much more complicated question, and do an injustice to the discussion.
Personally, I am against the killing of human beings except in cases where you or your loved ones are in imminent danger of losing (longterm) health or life.
I do not support a government's ability to declare war on another sovereign nation, but I do support their right to maintain a militia for the purpose of supporting their own sovereignty and the lives of their citizens, as I support any soldier's right to fight for his life and the life of his fellow soldiers once put in a combat situation.
I do not support the death penalty, but I do support the police killing a person who tries to kill them during an arrest (for example.) Or a person killing someone breaking into their house and threatening their family.
So, in the case of abortion, I support it inasfar as it protects the health and saves the life of a woman threatened by another human being. But if her health or life is not in jeopardy, I do not support it, as it is a choice to end another human being's life. As for "back alley" abortions, they only put her life in danger inasmuch as playing russian roulette puts your life in danger (it is a choice to put your life in danger at that point.)
And, lastly, to those who say it is an unwanted life, and as such should be avoided to the point where ending that life is justified, would you do the same to all unwanted orphans? Are their lives so worthless and bleak that they should all be euthanized?
Genetically speaking, any fetus is not the mother's body.
The DNA is human DNA.
Great, now the goblin is going to have to print the smallest protest signs ever for "Mitochondrial freedom!" and "cancer equality!"
