On the fence about abortion, and I have some moral questions for both sides

I've never heard of foetuses being screened as gay before

From a pro-choice standpoint:

1) No, since it isn't considered an independent human being until it is viable and can survive independently of its mother's womb. After this point, yes it would have rights.
2) Because up until the point of viability, the fetus is considered a part of the mother's body.
3) I think it would be very hypocritical of a pro-choicer to condemn or attempt to restrict abortion when it is done based on characteristics. The fetus is either just a collection of cells, in which case it can be aborted for any reason whatsoever, or it is an individual person with rights, in which case it cannot. Permitting or restricting abortion based on the personal reasoning behind the mother's choices, completely contradicts all the arguments that pro-choicers make in terms of justifying abortion. You may question the character of a person who aborts a baby because it's a girl, or because its gay, but that wouldn't justify banning them from doing so.

But animals aren't humans and we cant kill them whenever we want to

But the foetus isn't apart of the mothers body, it is inside it

So you would be completely ok with a religious family aborting a child that could be gay?

But animals aren't humans and we cant kill them whenever we want to

But the foetus isn't apart of the mothers body, it is inside it

So you would be completely ok with a religious family aborting a child that could be gay?

The foetus is a part of the mother, they are connected.

What religious group is pro abortion but is homophobic?

It's not a question of human life or animal life, it's a question of independent life versus being a part of the mother's body. At that stage, by all reasonable definitions in my view, it is a part of the mother's body and would be nothing whatsoever without its mother's body, hence giving the choice to the woman. Only when it can actually survive as an independent organism can it be afforded the same rights that a human being would.

I would certainly take issue with them, but not because of the abortion itself, but because of their bigoted views of gay people. So I would not ban them from getting the abortion in such a case, but I obviously would not approve of their reasons for getting it. I think some pro-choice people would suggest it be banned, but that would imply they view the fetus in such a case as a person, which contradicts their position. It either is a person, or it isn't.

so does that mean a surrogate has the right to abort a another couples foetus, also does that mean if i remove your finger and surgically attach it to me is it mine?

I think its more about life and less about the homosexuality, so would you be in favour of giving people the option to abort gay, transgender or female babies?

3) I think it would be very hypocritical of a pro-choicer to condemn or attempt to restrict abortion when it is done based on characteristics. The fetus is either just a collection of cells, in which case it can be aborted for any reason whatsoever, or it is an individual person with rights, in which case it cannot. Permitting or restricting abortion based on the personal reasoning behind the mother's choices, completely contradicts all the arguments that pro-choicers make in terms of justifying abortion. You may question the character of a person who aborts a baby because it's a girl, or because its gay, but that wouldn't justify banning them from doing so.

1. Does a foetus have any rights or value?
2. On what moral grounds does the mother alone decide a foetus's worth?
3. In instances like a woman aborting a girl because she wanted a boy, or aborting a gay baby because she wanted a straight one is this any less moral that aborting a child simply because you didn't want one, and if so would you ban it?

1. I don't see why something that hasn't been brought into the world yet should have a right.... value.. to the parent?
2. She's nursing the foetus in her womb. She does have the right. The father can have a say too.
3. WTF how would you know a child's sexual orientation before they're born? Well, aborting because of the gender is shifty, I wouldn't ban it.

but a foetus is human life, and even if its not a full developed human all complex life on this planet has rights why is it that foetus does not

so you think its moral that a beings right to life can be taken away when it is dependant on something else?

Lets say you have siamease twins and one didn't develop a mouth so it is reliant on the other to consume food, would you consider it murder if the more developed one got the less developed one removed and killed?

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Tell that to the animals being slaughtered right now.

I'm not the most moral person out there but yes, especially if they're significantly connected.

Not really. I'd have saved them loads of mistreatment, prejudice and sadness.

Tell that to the animals being slaughtered right now.

you didn't answer the first point

are you saying that the pro choice side isn't the moral side to this argument ?

Haha you beat me to it

You say "all complex life on this planet has rights" but that is what this whole issue is about, whether a foetus can be defined as complex life.

On another note animals do not have a 'right to life' - we kill them for slaughter and we put down horses when they are no longer fit to race, to name a few examples...