| | With the humanity of the fetus established, the idea of setting standards for humanity must be looked upon. | | With the humanity of the fetus established, the idea of setting standards for humanity must be looked upon. |
| − | Those that seek to justify abortion use deceptive means, they create arbitrary walls of "recognizable humanity", so as to eliminate a fetus from personhood merely by narrowing the definition. They argue that an individual must exhibit reasoning, self-motivation, the ability to communicate, and self-awareness. Would this not then deny the right to life to those who have significant mental disabilities? What of those in a comatose state, or even month-old children? What of the mentally insane, of which none of those characteristics may be ascertained? Or individuals subject to such torture that they are barely aware of their own existence? This is the precariousness of so willingly defining and terminating human life. The Nazis practiced significant dehumanization with regards to the Jewish and other non-Aryans, if the Jews weren't human, then there was nothing wrong with killing them. If a fetus isn't a human, then there isn't anything wrong with killing it. Such a morally bleak and historically disastrous mindset quite simply can not be allowed to proliferate, for it has well-proven itself to lead to rampant atrocities. | + | Those that seek to justify abortion use deceptive means, they create arbitrary walls of "recognizable humanity", so as to eliminate a fetus from personhood merely by narrowing the definition. They argue that an individual must exhibit reasoning, self-motivation, the ability to communicate, and self-awareness. Would this not then deny the right to life to those who have significant mental disabilities? What of those in a comatose state, or even month-old children? What of the mentally insane, of which none of those characteristics may be ascertained? Or individuals subject to such torture that they are barely aware of their own existence? This is the precariousness of so willingly defining and terminating human life. The Nazis practiced significant dehumanization with regards to the Jewish and other non-Aryans. If the Jews weren't human, then there was nothing wrong with killing them. If a fetus isn't a human, then there isn't anything wrong with killing it. Such a morally bleak and historically disastrous mindset quite simply can not be allowed to proliferate, for it has well-proven itself to lead to rampant atrocities. |
| | Is abortion murder? By all means, yes. Childrens' lives are just thrown away-sometimes, in a horrifying and quite literal manner- by a mindset which has done nothing but harmed the world time and time again. These are little people, with very bright futures, and it is nothing short of criminal when it is taken away. | | Is abortion murder? By all means, yes. Childrens' lives are just thrown away-sometimes, in a horrifying and quite literal manner- by a mindset which has done nothing but harmed the world time and time again. These are little people, with very bright futures, and it is nothing short of criminal when it is taken away. |