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Originally Posted by ninja";p="
This topic made me feel sick. MAYBE, just maybe, it's wrong because you're killing a baby?
What has happened to the world's morals?
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This is exactly the type of misconception I'm talking about. You are not killing a baby. A baby is an entirely different object with different properties to a fetus. Once this is understood it becomes clear why abortion is perfectly acceptable.
So once again babys and fetus are different things. They are related but only in the same way as sperm and eggs are related to babies. To substitute one for the other is not a valid move. You can't make the move
premise 1 - its wrong to kill babies (correct)
premise 2 - fetuses are babies (wrong)
Conclusion - its wrong to kill fetuses
Premise to is simply not correct.
Let just look at why fetuses are not babies
Properties of babies:
Capabable of indapendant life
Can feel pain
Can react to many complex stimuli
Are self aware
Can comunicate
Can see
Can feel.
Are concious
Are sentient
Properies of fetus:
NOT capable of indapendent life
Can't feel pain
Not self aware
Can't communicate
Are not concuious
Are not sentient
So they have completely different properties because they are completely different object and therefore they have completely different rules governing their treatment.
As to what has happend to the world morals?
Well they have moved on as our understanding has increased. ONly those stuck on the religious dogmas spouted in out of date books cling to the archane moral systems that subjegate woman and prevent abortion. Free youselves from the shackels of religion and the world will be a far far better place.