I think your forgetting that women have bodily autonomy for many things involving their body parts. If she wants to treat her body (ergo her organs) like crap by smoking and/or drugs, she might as well be disposing her organs. She can have parts of her organs removed in medical procedures for health reasons or vanity (cosmetic surgery).
I am not forgetting anything; I just do not care for false equivalency fallacies. Comparing a woman's personal freedoms to choose to smoke, drink, elective surgeries, or even choosing to drive (or be a passenger in) a car, thereby putting her body as a whole or in parts at risk of damage or death to that of being pregnant is beyond asinine ignorance of the subject matter under discussion.
The distinction that I make is the zygote is half the DNA of the father and the mother. Therefore, the organism is not the mother even though it is inextricable from her body. It would be inaccurate to call the zygote her body.
NO one calls the zygote "her body," it is widely accepted that it is within her body. Same as a cancer tumor would be, or even a tapeworm. It is still within her body, but it is NOT "her body."
And the whole DNA thing is an irrelevant point. When crime scene investigators find blood and organic material at a crime scene they collect it and test it. In testing it they are looking for ... wait for it ... DNA to tell them what organism the specimens originated from. Every cell in the human organism has DNA, but it doesn't make each cell, organ, or slice of tissue [a] human being, now does it!?! No, it does not. It's just a genetic/biological identifier, that's it.
The phrase "To be a human being is to be a person" is a tautology. If the argument is a person is an individual not subsistent on another, then the term can used for legal scrutiny. However, the argument is not the recognition of law.
Uh, nowhere did I make such an absurd argument. And as for the rest of that statement it makes little to no sense, grammatically speaking. Try rephrasing, please.
A zygote is the beginning of a new life. Since a zygote is related to the development of a human life, it deserves to placed under the scrutiny of human morality, which supersedes the law. Human life is sacred. Life should be respected for being life and have the right to life. If you purport that the zygote or fetus is like a cancer or parasite attached to the women's body, then your foolish because it is human life. (question to TWS1405) How do pro-choice people justify having a stance against life?
You're conflating the term "life" throughout your stated position. Cellular life is not the same as [a] human life (i.e., personhood). It appears you do not understand what the term "morality" means:
- There does not seem to be much reason to think that a single definition of morality will be applicable to all moral discussions. One reason for this is that “morality” seems to be used in two distinct broad senses: a descriptive sense and a normative sense. More particularly, the term “morality” can be used either descriptively to refer to certain codes of conduct put forward by a society or a group (such as a religion), or accepted by an individual for her own behavior, or normatively to refer to a code of conduct that, given specified conditions, would be put forward by all rational people.
Morality does NOT "supersede the law." It is what helps shape it, but it certainly does NOT supersede it. No, human life is not sacred. ALL life is sacred. But how we deal with that issue is entirely dependent on our evolution and survival as a sentient species along with keeping all other life in check so as not to cause extinction, but balance for all life.
Cancer meets the basic biological criteria for life. If that cancer is created from dead or diseased human tissue, being human in origin, scientifically that makes the tumor "human life" too. A parasite, not so much, but as I said before...it is still within her body. She intrinsically possesses it. Fact.
Being pro-choice to allow a woman control over her body is not a position against life (define life). Her life matters first and foremost, all else is secondary.
(For anyone reading) How do liberals justify abortion when they have a ironic pro-life stance on animals and a conservationist stance on nature?
Yet another false equivalency fallacy. You simply cannot compare abortion, which is inherently a human reality, with that of other non-human animals.
For the record, I am not a liberal. I am a staunch conservative and constitutionalist to the core.