The only definition I can think of to define a human being is based on the definition I would use to define a woman, a man, or an ear of corn.
When defining nouns, I think it’s okay to show people pictures of what a human, woman, man, or ear of corn look like, and expect people to figure out what is a human, woman, man, or war of corn.
https://www.webmd.com/baby/interactive-pregnancy-tool-fetal-development?week=8 shows the pictures of human development in the pregnancy. At conception, the pregnancy doesn’t look like it contains a human being. I just don’t think it does. 8 weeks is a different story. At 8 weeks, that looks pretty human to me, so I wouldn’t legalize killing an 8 week pregnancy. Basically, I think abortion should be legal up until 8 weeks into pregnancy and banned beyond this point. You find out you’re pregnant at 6 weeks, so you still have time to abort under this model. Make this the federal standard.
I don’t believe bodily autonomy arguments are good, and if anyone believe that bodily autonomy is a good argument, let me know and we will see if bodily autonomy is a good argument. But here is kind of why I do think bodily autonomy is a good argument:
Let’s say that there are these 2 people in a relationship (a man and a woman). Let’s say the woman is being a total asshole to the man, the worst asshole you can imagine, and she causes the man so much emotional stress from the relationship. Let’s also say the man cannot do the following things:
1) Tell her she is being annoying while expecting it to reduce stress, because this would be like a pregnant female telling her fetus to stop being annoying. She can do it, but don’t expect it to deliver results because fetuses don’t speak English.
2) Break up with her, because this would be like the pregnant female breaking up with the fetus. If she does this, the fetus is aborted. If breaking up with your girlfriend resulted in her death, people wouldn’t let you brake up with a girlfriend you chose to get into a relationship with.
His only 2 options are:
1) Suck it up; deal with the stress for 9 months.
2) Kill his mentally abusive girlfriend through painless methods. A gunshot to the back of the head does this.
Should he be allowed to pick the 2nd option? Absolutely not; suck up the mental pain because your temporary pain is not worth your girlfriend’s life. You chose to get into this relationship knowing the hypothetical consequences, so you deal with the girlfriend for 9 months.
Now you know why I don’t believe bodily autonomy is a good argument.
