Come on now, you keep saying that you have scientific proof that fetuses are humans. Where is it? Start citing or I ain't biting.
(rhyming argument for the win)
Well, what other species would they be? A bit anticlimactic, I know, but science/common sense says they're humans -- their parents are humans and when they grow up, they would be called humans; the question is whether they're human beings (persons), and to answer that requires philosophy and logic, which, while not subjective (that is, they either are persons or they aren't; my opinion doesn't change that fact either way), are not entirely certain, and if my arguments don't persuade you, I can't do anything more in that regard, and this was a long sentence. But they are members of the homo sapiens species.
(Warning: Clearly religious stuff follows.)
To get much deeper into the philosophical side, beyond the S.L.E.D.C. comparisons, I'd have to get into my religious reasons for being pro-life. In case you're interested, it's very similar to C.S. Lewis's model of morality in
The Problem of Pain. Our bodies are ships that have been rented out to us by God, and we (our souls) are the sailors on the ships, making a trip to a distant land (eternity). Morality consists of three aspects:
- We must steer our ships in the proper direction if we want to get to the right destination.
- We must avoid crashing into other people's ships.
- We do not own our own ships, and therefore must not damage them.
However, it's impossible for us to perfectly meet all those standards, and the currency in our homeland is so worthless compared to the currency in the land of the Shiplender that we couldn't possibly afford to pay for even the smallest repair. And that's why we need Jesus. (Okay, I couldn't carry the analogy any further.) We have made offenses against an infinite God, and therefore our punishment must be infinite (If you lie to a 2-year-old, they can't do anything about it; if you lie to your wife, you sleep on the couch; if you lie to your boss, you lose your job; if you lie to the government, you go to jail: the same crime, but against increasingly important authorities). Since we're finite, we couldn't even begin to pay for our offenses after an eternity of punishment. That's why God came to earth to provide an infinite sacrifice to pay for us (He couldn't just overlook our sins, because He's a good judge). If we turn from our sins, bow to Him as Lord, and receive His payment, we will be forgiven. So as Christians, we are no longer in danger of punishment for our sins, but we avoid them because we hate them, due to the new nature we've been given, and because we are eternally grateful to God for saving us from them and don't want to grieve Him by going back to them.
Anyway, I guess the abortion-relevant part is back in the C.S. Lewis segment: our bodies belong to God.
(End of religious talk)
That was a bit of a tangent, wasn't it? Once I get started on this, I can't help but go through the whole thing. But anyway, my main point in this topic is that abortion should be illegal in the United States: fetuses are humans, and the Declaration says that from the moment they begin to exist (all men are created equal, not born equal), humans have the right to exist (and common sense says that when one person's right to life interferes with someone else's right to pursue happiness, the right to life supercedes).
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