Do you find it persuasive?
Right. I mean, I used to believe this - I used to protest planned parenthood even. I think your view is a logical extension of some type of philosophy about 'murder' and 'person' and 'rights'. I think the issue lies in the underlying philosophy, not in the logical extension.
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As in, it feels really weird to say that upon the moment of conception, the thing is a full person with the right to live. Like, there's plenty of animals with way more cognitive capacity and ability to feel pain that pro-life and pro-choice people alike are fine with killing.
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We seem to collectively have an idea of 'right to llive' with something something humanity, or pain-feelingness, or 'surviving-ness. It's pretty unclear where the border is. The religious pro-life view imbues humanity with Special Soul-ness from the get-go, which is complicated
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