At the moment of conception a unique and complete human genetic code is created, the question really is "at what age does a human being acquire the right to exist and protection from the state?" I still think that it's a complex issue that's best handled behind closed doors by family and medical professionals, but then there's those outside cases of doctor's who'll abort a healthy, 9 month baby and I can't call it anything but murder.
The mental gymnasts pro-lifers do in refusal to acknowledge the fetus as a human being absolutely disgusts me. They make a lot of arguments I agree with, but you have to deny pretty cut and dry science in order to justify stripping a fetus of it's humanity and inherent worth.
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