Choosing when and why and how a person should die, is a position of judgement humanity has indulged in for ever...
Well, everyone knows that there is more to life than physical material. People have emotions and thoughts. And how can we define when a fetus' emotions or thoughts become a reality? We can't, we can only judge the physical side of it. This leaves out an important part of life when we decide to kill that living growing fetus.

It IS living and growing. Surely the fact that it is growing is sign enough that it is alive?
That is how i learnt to define life when i was younger anyway... that a rock is not alive because it doesn't grow, but a plant is because it does.

AND its not the fact that it might be murder if you kill it, its the fact that you just stopped growth! you stopped a human being from years and years of pleasure, excitment, happiness, fear, and the joy of maturing, choosing, making mistakes, hurting and learning. Oh the joy of learning!!

What is important to understand, is that there are some people who cant breath without help, cant see and cant hear, cannot do anything but live. And yet they manage to experience things, that otherwise would not have been open to them. Its that contentment of life! that pleasure of the muse! and the knowledge of love! all things that a human can experience.

We cannot judge whether or not that little bundle of multiplying cells is alive. there are too many things that we dont know.
But what we do know is that it is growing, and will continue to grow and learn and become more complex and change and grow some more, untill death knocks on the door.

the fact that only one person is looking after it in its first months and nurturing it for the next few years and then teaching it for the rest doesn't mean that little human is less human, it makes the mother more so.

And no one knows what that child will be. So assuming what he/she will do, experience or when it will die, is pointless. We just dont know.

We can only do what every person does with a baby. teach it and help it to understand, hope that it will make the right choices, be there when they make mistakes, pick them up when they fall, nurture it, but ultimatley prepare them to be themselves.

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"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the
same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus