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Originally Posted by djplong
Take a fertilized egg out of the womb and tell me that. Heck, at that stage, the 'baby' can do things that a 'real baby' cannot - like be frozen, stored for years, defrosted and implanted back into a womb and survive - there's a whole industry that does this.
"Medical Science" has a whole host of names for the various stages of development. Zygote, blastocyte, fetus, etc.
And I believe I've demonstrated respect in referring to those on the other side as "pro life" as opposed to the more politically charged "anti-choice" (and I've heard some worse ones from the radical left). I would appreciate treatment in kind. I am in no way in favor of abortion. I simply prefer a different method to eliminating over 95% of it. (At the source - as in preventing the pregnancy in the first place).
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I cannot call pro-abortion people by the term pro-choice until the choices of all involved are respected.
With your example of freezing the embryo...many premature babies are unable to survive without life support. Should we consider them alive or not? Since they need the help of others humans, such as the embryo/fetus relies on the umbilical cord, should we make it legal for the parents to choose to terminate them also if it is going to be too expensive or inconvenient, etc?