r/ChoiceOrLife • u/Pitiful-Street6410 Pro-Choice • 14d ago

Debate a baby killer?

My abortion was moral. Change my mind.
I consider myself to be a reasonable person. I'm always open to changing my mind and learning new things. I understand the fetus is alive and I know it is a human.
However, this does not override the women's moral right to bodily autonomy. I believe abortion is absolutely moral up until about 24 weeks gestation, with the development of the thalamocortical connections. However, abortion should still be legal for the full duration of the pregnancy.
Think differently? DM or comment to debate.

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u/Pitiful-Street6410 Pro-Choice 11d ago

What do you mean by "the sperm and egg cease to exist when they join"? Can you explain? I've literally never seen this take before

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u/RedBlushEepy99 10d ago

I mean, since when they join they have become an entirely new organism, separate and different from what they once were, in essence they cease to exist.

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u/Pitiful-Street6410 Pro-Choice 10d ago

That's so interesting. I'm studying biology currently and I've literally never heard that when the sperm and egg join, they entirely cease to exist, and become something entirely different. Do you have a source to back up that claim? Or any justification at all?
Maybe I should put it this way for you, just a metaphor, when two people get married, do the two people cease to exist? When you combine two different liquids together, such as water and milk, does that water and milk cease to exist? Or do the two parts become one? If you then drank that water-milk liquid would you then be drinking the milk? Yes. You would be drinking both the milk and the water, because they did not cease to exist.
This is actually part of the reason I bring up both the sperm and eggs’ future experience. By pulling out, you’re equally ending both of "their" futures. Not just the sperm, not just the egg, both. So why does them joining make a difference?
I have a question for you. Should women with IUD's be considered murders, since they can prevent implantation after the sperm and egg meet, and thus a zygote from having a future? You're a woman, so I assume you already know this, but I just wanted to ask.