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And I simply stated that a fetus cannot control it's own body.
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It can control it in the same way a sleeping person can. The fact that it cant move around on it's own doesnt make it the property of the mother.
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So if the child being born would result in the mother's death, which would take precedence?
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Go back to my conjoined twin example...short answer: yes it is reasonable to separate yourself if your own life is at risk in both situations.
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I am against abortion except for when the birth would result in the Mother's death and when conception is a result of rape
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It is not the child's fault that it was the product of a rape. Why is it less of a person if it was the product of rape or incest?
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then I believe that no-one has the right to tell a woman she cannot have an abortion.
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It is not just about the woman's right to her body...it is about the child's right to exist. The mother does not have the right to kill a child. The only reasonable exception, IMO, is if her own life is at risk.
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I do not believe we should ban abortion, but that we should increase awareness and availability of other options (e.g adoption) and also give people, teenagers especially, more information about, and access to, contraception.
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That will not solve the core issue. The core issue is this: is the child a person or is it property? it cant be both. Right?
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That is such an expansive definition of consciousness as to be meaningless. Very few people would consider the consciousness of a single-cell organism to be true consciousness in any meaningful sense.
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I am pro-life. I dont agree with his definition either. And the fact that it will have a consciousness in the future is irrelevant to me. Squashing a zygote is not remotely as bad as killing a newborn baby. They are obviously not the same thing.