victor809 wrote:No. My point is that a heart, while if present is a sign a person might be alive, it is not itself the definition of life.
The point is choose a different organ.
The anti abortion groups love talking about heartbeats, maybe that wasn't your point, but mine is simply that a heart is a primitive correlation to life which people have clung to since back when our medical knowledge was very poor.
You can keep a heart beating however you'd like.
The point is that if you stop it, the living being will die.
When I was a kid I didn't care about abortion.
Hell, I thought it might be a good plan B if I wasn't careful enough.
Then I was an expecting father.
After two miscarriages and fertility drugs for my wife we were cautiously optimistic.
And then I saw the ultrasound of my daughter at 12 weeks.
Tiny.
But 100% my little girl.
And yet still completely legal to kill if we wanted to execute that "choice" on that very same day.
12 weeks. First trimester. Fair game.
Keep it legal.
I get it.
It is a choice.
I understand.
But to refuse to acknowledge that it is absolutely 100% a life? To claim it's not a little human?
That's your own insecurities trying to justify your decision.
A decision made for convenience.
I'm not a zealot on the matter. I've got close friends that I love dearly who've had an abortion. It doesn't define a person, or at least it shouldn't.
But I shudder when I hear the cavalier and dismissive attitudes out there.
It shouldn't be called a mere choice.
It's an important decision and should be treated as such.
I'm just surprised that viewpoint offends so many.