Quote from: Maestro75 on Today at 06:27:37 AM

Quote from: af_newbie on Today at 01:43:23 AM

That is a logical fallacy. False equivalence. A fetus is not a person.

A chicken egg is not a chicken.

BTW, we are killing life all the time.

All the food you eat is life killed; plants and animals.

I am not sure why you find it distasteful what others do with their bodies. It should be none of your business.

While it is nobody's business what another person does with their bodies, we also have to know that what others do also has a way of affecting us. Why do you think there are traffic lights and regulations for drivers? It is to prevent reckless drivers from harming others. Look at your comparisons you will find out that they are wrong too. A chicken egg that has not be sat on by a hen is a plain egg without life inside the shell but a foetus is a life growing in a womb. It is a baby unborn. Comparing plants and animals to humans is a wrong analysis.

Ok, captain obvious. If you break a fertilized chicken egg, it is the same thing as performing a human abortion. Put a fertilized egg in the incubator and you'll get a chicken, no hen required. If you buy farmer's eggs and eat them, you are not only performing abortions but also eating the chicken embryos.

As for comparing plants and animals to humans, well, do you know anything about biology? We evolved from plants and animals.
All life on Earth has some human DNA in it. Bananas have 60% of human DNA in them. Chimpanzees have 99% of human DNA.

But you are right, comparison of a human fetus to a self-sustaining, alive plant or animal is not quite right, a human fetus is much less structured and is a non-functional, developing life form. You pro-life guys brought the 'fetus is a life' argument, I just followed to its conclusion.

If your argument is 'protect life', then you have to stop eating and protect all life.

If your argument is 'protect human life only' then, where is your empathy for other animals, including humans?
Why are you supporting tribalism (religions/nationalism) that leads to wars? Where is your empathy for pregnant humans?

If your argument is 'protect human life only because humans are special', I would say prove it to me that we are.
From what we observed in nature, we are just another mammal species, fundamentally no different than 5,400 other mammal species out there, and we are almost identical to about 350+ species of primates.