PSA to all of you who are against abortion
we can't legally murder people? well what about the death penalty? even those people have a person built up, we put people down for not being able to take care of themselves whether it be by an accident or due to mental defects. a human fetus is not a PERSON yet, it cannot decide what it likes or what it doesn't like, it doesn't know the concept of mommy and daddy yet, it doesn't even know what a floor, ceiling, and/or wall is yet, it has no person, no advanced forms of thought, no life. a human fetus is entirely reliant on the human mother for the first few stages of life, and if you've taken any form of biology class you would know that in order for something to be classified as ALIVE, it has to meet ALL requirements as a living thing.
"Living things are made of cells.
Living things obtain and use energy.
Living things grow and develop.
Living things reproduce.
Living things respond to their environment.
Living things adapt to their environment.
If something follows one or just a few of the rules listed above, it does not necessarily mean that it is living. To be considered alive, an object must exhibit all of the characteristics of living things. Sugar crystals growing on the bottom of a syrup container is a good example of a nonliving object that displays at least one criteria for living organisms."
yes, a fetus is made of cells
yes, a fetus obtains and uses energy (supplied entirely by the mother)
yes, a fetus grows and develops (according to the mother)
a fetus has the POTENTIAL to reproduce IN THE FUTURE, however, in it's state, it cannot yet reproduce.
yes, studies have shown that a fetus responds to it's environment, but not in any way that would aid it's own development or survival.
a fetus, cannot adapt to it's environment beyond the way the dna has coded it to do, so a fetus does only what it is coded to do(for the most part)
therefor, by the classifications biologists use to determine whether something is living, nonliving, or dead, one can only assume that a fetus, alone, is not alive. a fetus can only be classified as a ORGAN (a part of a larger system of cogs in the biological mechanism that is a human being, which has the POTENTIAL, to EVENTUALLY, be alive, by the moment of it's birth, and separation of the umbilical cord.
LEGAL PRECEDENTS have been set, that unless the fetus has taken a breath, it is not yet alive, therefor, an abortion, under law, CANNOT, and WILL NOT, ever be qualified as homicide. it's also why if you unplug someone's life support, you cannot be charged with murder because that machine is breathing for them. seriously. go fucking get an education before you start trying to argue points about abortion, because CLEARLY, you do not know enough to argue on the subject.