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The “baby” is a zygote which lacks the feeling and development of a fully grown human

One gains rights by being developed, as is manifested by a growing amount of freedom the more one grows in adulthood. When you’re a kid, you have very few rights, because you’re sentient, but not developed enough to think everything through. The same is true for a zygote, but at a much more advanced level, in which the zygote isn’t even conscious or developed enough to feel, think, or move the same way as a fully grown human. This therefore allows the parent far more power kver what they can do to the zygote, which can reach the level of termination to stop the process as the moral value of the zygote is lacking due to a similar lack of any development. It’s the same way as how one would usually attribute more moral value to a fully grown chicken rather than to the eggs which we eat that come from it.

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One gains rights by being developed, as is manifested by a growing amount of freedom the more one grows in adulthood.

One gains more freedom to autonomy and to make one's own decision, and one can be trusted to walk with scissors, do chores, etc, as one matures, but you're fallaciously equivocating these "rights" with a fundamental right to life that we are supposed to be discussing. We all agree, I would hope, that even though a one-year-old has far less rights than an adult, he still has the right not to be murdered. The right to life is not one of those rights that is…  Read more

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