Life as seen by Leftards
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The argument isn't that it's not life. The argument is that it's not a human being until a certain point of development.
I'm not defending the argument, but at least make sure you're responding to the argument they're actually making.
The actual argument is not even about the legalities of abortion, or women's rights, but about if the fed or the states control it. Roe v. Wade.
Yes and no. I believe a typical phrase is "life begins at conception". So certainly there was debate about when life begins.
I guess kinda, but I think anyone who contests that is not necessarily contesting that LIFE begins at conception, but that HUMAN LIFE (as defined by our concept of human rights) begins at conception.
Nobody sane is going to say that two living cells combine and then immediately die, become nonlife, and then spontaneously become life again after developing, while not alive.
Abortion is absolutely killing a life. Whether it's killing a human being or not is what the abortion debate is about.
Semen is alive and contains human DNA, but no pro-life march defends the right of sperm to survive, nor do pro-choicers defend the right to masturbate.
I think this is a big reason that the pro-life and pro-choice people talk past one another. Not only are they not arguing the same issue, but they're not even agreeing on how they're defining the terms they're using.
Semen is alive, but not considered human life because it only has 23 chromosomes. Same with eggs. A human life has 46 chromosomes. Of course it is more than just how many chromosomes you have or we'd be calling crowned lemur's as human.
It is the union of egg and sperm that creates the magic combination to initiate human life.
So to argue that marching to defend a human life is the same is quite silly. Vegans should then march with pro-life if they care about all life as they claim. However, many vegans are for abortion of human life, but scream its murder to eat chicken eggs or consume milk from a cow or wear leather.
It comes across as silly for a group to scream "fur is murder" but "abortion is not!".
I'm not sure I agree with some of your points, or what seem to be points you're trying to make. Semen, by itself, is not the start of human life. When sperm fertilize an egg that is the start of human life. It would seem hard to argue otherwise.