When is “abortion” not immoral?

This is an old Zoltar Speaks! blog post.

I’ve been seeing arguments from pro-choice abortion activists that are intentionally modifying long standing definitions to fit an agenda instead of using the definitions as they are. This is not parsing the words of an existing definition, this is not simply misunderstanding an existing definition, they are literally adding things to the definition of “person” that do not exist in the definition. They are saying that a person is not a person until they can “think and feel”, that is by definition false – see next paragraph. These pro-choice abortion activists are saying that “intelligent, informed pro-choice advocates”talk about “thinking and feeling” as the defining point that a person becomes a person; I don’t care who presents that as an argument, it’s false, it is literally uninformed, it’s literally showing a low level of intelligence, it’s literally *bastardizing the English language into agenda driven rhetoric.

I went and looked up as many definitions for the word “person” as I could find and I found an obvious common thread: Person: A human being regarded as an individual. A human individual. A human being. A human being as distinguished from an animal or a thing. An individual human. The common thread is human and individual, there is nothing in any definition I could find that could be construed into being a person is only a person if they can “think and feel”.

Furthermore…

Human Being: is a man, woman, or child of the species Homo sapiens, distinguished from other animals by superior mental development, power of articulate speech, and upright stance. Is an unborn child a human being, yes.

Individual: is a single human being as distinct from a group, class, or family. Is an unborn human being an individual, yes.

Is an unborn human being a “person”, yes. The argument that an unborn child is not a real person until they can “think and feel” is literally false.

I’ve been thinking about what these people have been talking about trying to define the point that an unborn human being becomes a “person” as being when they can “think and feel” and I’ve begun to lean towards that they are trying to arbitrarily define  the point that fits their agenda where they want to say life begins by redefining the word “person” and they think it’s fine to end the potential of the growing human being as long as it is before that predefined arbitrary point in its growth.  Aren’t they really trying to talk about being alive vs not being alive, so that it can’t possibly be considered “murder” (as some choose call it) if this “it” the so callously talk about is not considered alive?

WHAT IF YOU ARE ALL WRONG?

What is life?

Life: The condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death. Does a fertilized egg have life, yes; but the viability of that life, as in continued growth of that life, is only possible after the implantation of the fertilized egg.

Alive: (of a person, animal, or plant) living, not dead. Having life. Is a fertilized egg alive, yes.

What is death?

Death: the action or fact of dying or being killed; the end of the life of a person or organism. Is abortion causing death, yes.

Kill: cause the death of (a person, animal, or other living thing). Does abortion kill, yes.

Murder: the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another. Is abortion murder, abortion is currently legal under certain conditions; therefore, abortion is not murder.

*Bastardizing: corrupt or debase (something such as a language or art form), typically by adding new elements.

There will be those that attack this opinion implying that it should be ignored because it’s nothing but semantics; to those that think that, you need to understand that words have real meaning and when that meaning is bastardized the constructs of the English language begin to break apart because no one knows what anyone else is talking about.

Lastly…

My opinion on abortion has morphed over the years as I have matured and grown to understand more, my opinion is currently…

The end result of pro-life is literally life.

The end result of pro-choice is literally death. A mother making a pro-choice choice has to live the rest of her life with choosing to kill a human being over allowing that human being to live.

Abortion is literally choosing to end the life of a human being when it is most vulnerable and unprotected by law. What is happening to these lives via abortion might currently be legal but it is clearly immoral and it will always be immoral regardless of rationalizations regarding legality!

I have absolutely no problem with any form of contraceptive that prevents a fertilized egg from properly implanting.