@olddisneychick@secularprolife Humans in the earliest stages of development don’t have the faculties to give or withhold consent in the same way a skin cell doesn’t. If anyone could be killed without consequence, even if painless, there’d be a great amount of suffering due to the perpetual fear it’d cause.
@olddisneychick@secularprolife Why not just anesthetize the fetus to prevent suffering in later stages? Because it’s a violation of their consent. As anti-abortion activists often show, fetuses in later stages will move away from and struggle against the abortion instrument affirming their lack of consent.
@secularprolife I think killing is wrong mainly because it causes suffering in one form or another. Thus I think the cutoff should be the point at which the fetus can experience pain (~12 weeks to be conservative)
@KristanHawkins “In high income countries with relatively liberal abortion laws, over 90% of all abortions take place before 13 weeks’ gestation. We argue that abortions before 13 weeks’ gestation do not involve any meaningful likelihood of pain for the fetus.”