/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12732750
>U r a clump of cells
So are dogs, pigs, plants, sponges, worms and algae. Your point?
Being a multicellular organism doesn't define humanity.

>>12732782
>So it's OK to kill you because you are a clump of cells?
I have emotions, memories, feelings, embryos don't have that.
Pigs also have emotions, memories and feelings yet no one cries when a pig is killed.

>>12732756
>So you admit that aborting healthy ones is murder?
If we're talking about Poland, then abortion of healthy fetuses was already illegal here.
Our politicians made chemical birth control illegal and then they made abortion illegal in cases such as rape, birth defects and when mother's life is in danger.
Anyway, I don't consider abortion of healthy fetuses a good thing, but being a clump of cells doesn't determine humanity.
In first 3 months of pregnancy, embryos are all the same in all vertebrates (including humans, yes humans are vertebrates), pic related.
From biological and and ethical standpoint aborting an embryo before 3 month is fine because the embryo doesn't feel anything and doesn't even have functional organs.
Aborting embryos before third month is as much murder as boiling potatoes or making scrambled eggs.
It is killing from the thermodynamic point of view but nothing more because nothing human other than genome can be found there.