re: #159 LotharBot

Here’s why they think that way:

Most people who consider abortion to be murder consider a fetus to be a full human at an early stage of development, not a potential human. To them, saying a 12-week fetus is a potential human would be as absurd as saying it about my newborn.

The distinction for those who answer the two questions that way is whether you’re killing a harmless, innocent human or a dangerous, guilty one.

(Disclaimer: I am against both abortion and the death penalty; the above is not my view, but a description of views others have described to me.)

If it were a human it would be called a human. A fetus is not a human. It is, by definition, a potential human.

I’m speaking of the first trimester when the vast majority of abortions are done and considered.