There’s no such thing as a “radical pro-abortionist.” No one is out there saying “Yehhh, abortion is fun!” This is as ridiculous a twist on words as it is to call anti-abortionists “pro-life” as though they have the corner in this market. Furthermore that you argue pro-choicers are debating embryologists is not only laughable, it illustrates exactly how little interaction with the scientific community you must have.

Abortion resembles less the removal of a cyst and more the removal of a parasite or even a tumor. And no biology text refers to it as a “human being.” Your use of the term “human being” is meant to be emotional. As a biology major I can assure you this term is rarely (if at all) tossed around. Human blastocyst perhaps, if trying to differentiate from other types of blastocysts. If not differentiating, then simply blastocyst (or embryo or zygote, etc.) Also it would never ever be referred to as a “little human being.” You’re simply trying to invoke your morality into the realm of science here, and you’re failing.

Your post is nothing but semantics. Anyone with any critical analysis ability can see through it like a window. You make no valid argument in your so-called “pro-life” stance and attempting to use science zaps your credibility even lower.

Empathy is understanding and appreciation for the feelings of others. Foetuses don’t have feelings.

One thing I don’t understand about pro-lifers… There are hundreds of thousands of children in this world, who live in war and poverty, and who die of starvation, war, and preventable diseases every day. If pro-lifers care so much about children, why don’t they try helping the kids who are already here before whining about ones who can’t even feel or think or comprehend it’s own existence yet? Innocent civilians tend to be killed in wars, and many of them are children.

To Annie: Agreed. If a born person, we’ll call Person B, no matter the age, baby, child, or adult, had to be attatched to Person A in order to survive, in a parasitic matter, meaning Person B would benefit at the expensive of Person A, who would recieve health complications and such, Person A should decide if they want to help person B. Let’s take the cases of organ donors and bone marrow. In the court case McFall v. Shimp, McFall needed a bone marrow transplant to survive. Shimp had a match but refused to give him the marrow. McFall sued, but lost, so Shimp did not have to give the marrow. There is a book called “My Sister’s Keeper” (there’s a movie coming out too), that, while fictional, does bring up issues about morals. Should a person be forced to give up a body organ to save someone else? I don’t think so.

I’m surprised, though, that you seem surprised that women considering abortion are often terrified and not in a good place to make life-altering choices. Almost no one denies that. I didn’t refer to all pregnant women, and it’s odd that you would infer that I did. Probably an honest mistake, though.

If a woman is pregnant, her life is already altered. The question then becomes, will she bring the little human being in her womb all the way to term, or will she kill him (or her) because he/she is unwanted? This is biologically what happens if she chooses to terminate the pregnancy. In no way does it resemble removal of a cyst, unless you think people choose to have cysts the way they choose to have sex which results in pregnancy. And per every single textbook on embryology, the zygote/blastocyst/fetus/embryo is a human being (although embryologists have no scientific opinion on personhood). So it is simply a fact that the little human being dies, by design, during an abortion.

Radical pro-abortionists may jump up and down and scream that “it’s not a human being!” but they’re arguing against embryologists in addition to pro-lifers. That’s just silly. The question remains whether all human beings deserve the life they already have or whether some should be destroyed because they’re not wanted. Pro-life people simply believe that the choice to intentionally kill an innocent human being is always wrong.

Point being, once that little human being is alive, the choice has been made. To allow or even worse, encourage, women to end this life is not something a functioning society does. It is a false solution to a real problem, and all who respect women should face the truth that abortion is destructive for mother, child and society.