For the record, I am neither pro-life or pro-choice. I just found this highly shocking that things like this take place. My atheist views tell me once the fetus develops brain activity of any kind, as simple as that may be, it is a living being. I believe that is at about the 6th week. Up to that point, I do not think you are killing a being. After that point, I personally believe you are. That's just the way I feel.
However, I read this again, and I this is how I have come to understand this. This guy was taking a shortcut. Instead of killing the fetus out of site, in the womb, he was just streamlining the process, and getting it out of the womb first, a perfectly viable living being, and killing it on the table? Correct me if I am wrong here.
So I guess the justification of the pro choicers would be, as long as is it killed in the womb, it is ok? If so I found that highly disturbing, and a very convenient rearrangement of facts to justify this practice.
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