Abortion also takes responsibility for pregnancy by stopping it. You probably believe conception is the cut off point because you believe in a soul. For the rest of us, early abortion has the same consequence for a potential person as abstinence. They never develop an aware brainhttps://twitter.com/B16pal/status/958131176929046528 …
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A sperm and an ovum are not human beings. A blastocyst, zygote, fetus are all human beings at different stages of development.
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The only difference between and egg before and just after conception is essentially an additional strand of DNA, which is just a molecule. Why is this ethically significant?
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Because left to its own devices, it will become a live human should nothing prevent it (e.g. miscarriage). That's the difference. This is how pro lifers see it. Those that don't want to control women. Exceptions of course.
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Left to its own devices, it will surely die. Just like an egg, it needs very specific inputs in a highly controlled environment (the womb) to survive. It is *potentially* a human, but then again so is an egg. The odds of unfertilised egg becoming human are lower though.
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Well no. I'm talking about a fertilised egg that has attached itself to the uterus. One that can survive so long as there aren't complications. Or at least if it dies, it does so "naturally". Not an egg on its own.
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Both an egg and a fertilised egg need to be “fed” a constant stream of molecules if they are to grow into a human. The egg just needs one more molecule.
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This is an intuitive thing which is almost certainly driven by the cognitive bias which makes us feel that a failure to act to bring about a consequence is less blameworthy than an action to stop the consequence even when the outcome is the same.
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This is an excellent point! I know of this bias in general but I hadn’t connected it to this issue. Thank you Helen

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