Topic: Abortion
Quote: To you, it may be an incorrect statement. But if it is, you have to tell me what it is you kill and take the life away from when you abort the zygote. Not knowing if it is being killed or not knowing someone wants to kill it makes no difference. Injustice is still practiced there, and not even some abortion doctors realize it.
Response: Whoa, sparky.\nYou said, "A zygote is just as viable as a human being as a born baby."\nMaybe the word "viable" is what you and I have a different definition of. I say it means able to survive outside a uterus, without being totally reliant on umbilical blood flow, placenta, etc. A baby who is born is able to breathe and eat and live physically separated from another human being.\nWhether you think it matters or not is a different story, but a fetus is most definitely not as viable as a baby up until, well it varies - 38 weeks for sure and the probability is progressively less with each fewer number of weeks. I happen to think that distinction is crucial to the discussion here, because the body of another human is necessary for viability prior to a certain gestational age. To me, that is the crux of the argument.\nMaybe you didn\'t mean what I thought you meant when you used (or misused) the word viable. It\'s a big word.
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