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I’ve been wanting to say this all day in relation to abortion.

kessikitty:

Thinking about it, life begins before conception. Why? All of those things are already living pieces. Once conception happens, life of a new organism begins. Yes, life begins before and at conception. But this does not mean value begins at conception. It does not mean future autonomy is worth considering at conception. It certainly does not mean sentience. So knowing that a fetus is not a sentient being until it is no longer a fetus but a baby, what argument can you have against the mother choosing whether or not this bunch of cells growing inside her continues to develop? The future autonomy argument is the only remaining thing. The argument that the possibility of a full-term pregnancy being carried out over a woman’s desire to not have a child is silly. Nine months down the road doesn’t mean the mother wants or will take care of the child. What kind of child would want to grow up in an environment like that? “I would have aborted you, but I couldn’t afford it/it wasn’t legal.” Why not painlessly (for the mother AND fetus) terminate the pregnancy before any kind of sentience develops? And sentience develops after the pregnancy has been carried out. Without sentience, a human is essentially of no worth. So yes, conception marks life. It also marks the beginning of a parasitic development inside the womb. It does not mark sentience.