Abortion is murder as soon as the fetus has any awareness - not pain perception or highly developed mental processing, just basic consciousness - which is quite soon actually. No supernatural or paranormal belief in souls or "sanctity of life" is necessary to justify this fact. The only times when abortion is ethically acceptable, ever, are as follows:
- The fetus has some genetic defect which will drastically decrease its quality of life to the extent that it's more humane to prevent it from being born, such as Tay-Sachs disease or brain malformation
- The pregnancy, if not terminated, would endanger the mother's life
Other reasons, like conceptions from rape or the mother's economic inability to raise a child properly, are invalid. If this doesn't make sense to you, imagine a mother deciding to kill her seven-year-old child for one of these reasons... then having mass demonstrations and laws passed to justify her decision.
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