Originally Posted by
gismo
I have always been on the side of the pro choice people. And my reasons have been largly the game, he sort of shares the same reasons that I do. The main reason that I do not consider the unborn child a human, like you are I, is to do with brain function. It cannot form memories, it has no cognition, therefore it cannot suffer, this for me is a really big difference and a crucial one. What does it matter if your other organs work, if your brain doesn't? In my mind it makes you little more than an elaborate vegetable.
I know that isn't a very nice way to describe my fellow humans, but without brain function you cannot form any relationships with other people and the world around you, you cannot forge an identity, you cannot experience the world on any meaningful level. And while the child is still in its early stages, still part of its mother, it is for this main reason that I tend to side with the pro choice people. It really does get me upset when people liken abortion to murdering a human who is walking around, for the reasons I mentioned earlier, they just are not the same.
I believe that it is our brain and subsequent experience that makes human life stand out from all other life, the reason we are the dominant species on this planet, for me it is the brain that defines us as a species more than anything else and whilst the unborn is still just a bunch of cells, for me it isn't human, it is potentially a human, but not yet.
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