My take on the "pro-choice/pro-life" debate
“A woman has a right to choose what to do with her own body.” This claim might clinch the argument if the fetus were part of the woman's body. But there are plenty of good biological reasons to deny that. Usually, when a part of your body is removed from you, you are regarded as an injured person: you are not able to function well. Typically, when a once pregnant woman has given birth to a child, she has a complete body, and if the delivery has gone normally, she is able to function well. The child that is now outside of her has its own blood type, its own DNA, its own set of internal organs, including pumping heart and brain that generates brain waves. It had all of these characteristics at some time it was in utero . It is presently a different organism than the mother. More precisely, it is an organism that previously lived within the mother. There is no reason to say that the mother and zygote/fetus/embryo we...