re: #446 Salamantis

Yes, a fertilized egg is human, and it is living, but it is not a person. In fact, it isn’t even a potential person, because that term implies the inevitability of the realization of potential in the natural order of things, and fully a third of pregnancies are miscarried - that is, spontaneously, naturally aborted.

No, a fertilized egg is a possible future person, and where the rights of a possible future person and the rights of the actual present person carrying it come into conflict, the rights of the latter must take moral precedence in any just and sane universe.

I don’t consider abortion to be a moral stance. It’s the law of the land and in some cases, I accept the necessity but I will never consider a woman aborting for any reason other than a life saving measure to have made a moral decision. This whole culture of sex without responsibility is bullshit.