In order to understand the questions I’m about to pose, one must first understand the pro-life position. Even if you don’t agree with it, you should at least understand it.
The pro-life argument is simple. It based on two premises.
1. Everything conceived from a human sperm and human egg is a human being and belongs to the human family. This fact is attested to by numerous pro-life and pro abortion-choice advocates as well as nearly all embryologists.
2. All humans are equally and inherently valuable in virtue of their humanness–because our humanness is the only thing we all have in common. This is the moral conviction most of us have that says that racism and sexism are wrong.
Therefore, embryos and fetuses are as equally and inherently valuable as any other human being and may not be killed just because they are in the way.
