More on abortion

"For those in favor of abortion, to appeal to the absence of a capacity for consciousness has seemed a risky strategy. On the basis of the studies showing that movement takes place as early as six weeks after fertilization, brain activity as early as the seventh week, it has been suggested that the fetus could be capable of feeling pain at this early stage of pregnancy."--Peter Singer, Practical Ethics, p. 142. (2 Ed.)

By the way, he is PRO-CHOICE but he admits that an embryo at that point is likely conscious. His belief that abortion is tolerable because the woman's life is greater than that of the baby's, he admits that abortion is killing an innocent life.

There are some in the prochoice side that give honest answer's or at least intellectually more reasonable ones, there is one feminist who also says a fetus is a person, but because of utilitarianism the value of the mother is greater than that of the child.

Here are some of the most unreasonable arguments for abortion:

1)It is not a life/human until born.
That's just plain stupid, the child has the same number of chromosomes as an adult, same DNA, and it fits the 7 biological criteria for being a life.

2)It's just a clump of cells.
A clump of cells with a heart, brain, DNA?

3)It's my body, leave me alone!!
A sort of self centered argument, drug addicts use the same argument (when they're not stoned), by this line of thinking suicide should also be okay since a person is doing what they want to their own body.