To me, a fetus is on the bottom of the totem pole. A fetus does not feel emotional pain, does not have conscious thoughts, and does not have dreams to be a big shot football player some day. It does not have friends or families that it has made intimate connections with. It does not have career or life goals. It does not fear death because it does not have the mental capacity to understand what death is. It does not have a fated trajectory in life (you can’t argue that this was the person who would go on to cure cancer). And in the case of a woman seeking abortion, it will not be missed by loved ones because it is not even wanted to begin with.
And to me, these are the things that make us human and give us worth. Not heartbeats or brainwaves or unique genetic composition. If a woman decides that continuing a pregnancy will severely detrimentally affect her life, she has every right to have an abortion. She has all of these attributes, and her quality of life far outweighs the existence of insentient cells.
Yes, quality of life, not just her life itself. To me, the value of an unwanted fetus is low enough to not outweigh quality decisions. An unwanted pregnancy going to make you have to drop out of school? Quit your job? Be depressed and stressed? Feel free to choose an abortion.
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I’m most definitely pro-choice. The only weakness I see in this argument is that it assumes that everybody who heeds these words are responsible. Most dumb young people are not responsible. You should not look at abortion like a get out of jail free card. You just destroyed something that millions of women would murder to have but can’t (Actually some do) because of medical or biological reasons due to the fact that you and your spouse were being irresponsible. I know there are honest accidents that happen all the time, and that is what abortions are for. But seriously, let’s not bring totem poles into this discussion. Moving on…
