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It's not her body since conception. It's another human's body inside her body.

I personally don't think we should have governments protecting lives or rights or anyone - therefore if abortion happens that's unfortunate but I wouldn't spend resources chasing that.

That said abortion is obviously murder and immoral, no matter how convenient it can be.

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> abortion is obviously murder and immoral

No, it’s not « obvious ». Many disagree on that, that’s kind of the whole point of the current debate.

That you claim 'abortion is obviously murder' shows you don't even understand the position of those who claim it isn't. Go do more research on the side you don't hold.

An embryo is not a human (and I say so as a father and former embryo myself) so it is not murder!

An embryo is a stage of being a human. As you say, you were an embryo yourself. It's only because we can't see it that we feel it's not human enough and can be killed. The thought of not being "human enough" doesn't bode well in our history, especially around the 1940s timeframe.

A spermatozoon is a stage of being human… so is an “egg cell” but nobody is forcing people to allow them all to develop into humans! And no… the nazi example has nothing to do with it (and I say it as a person whom all grandparents got sent to concentration camps by nazis)

This argument at its core is trying to justify at what stage of development this is considered human enough to protect. I think it’s a similar line of thinking as eugenics.

It is not… is actually a completely different thing! Check the dictionary!

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