Is Abortion right or wrong?

Now, I know that lots of people think that abortion is evil, as evil as killing an innocent person, and that God will condemn this.

However, I would like to give you, not a biblical argument, thats for another time, but a philosophical one.

Now, what differentiates humans from animals?

We both need food to survive
We both mate
We both follow the scientific determinates for life

So, in what way are we different?

It is my proposition that we are different because we have higher thought functions So, we have language, and discuss such things as we are discussing today, whereas animals have only lower thought functions for example, "I'm hungry lets eat".

So if there are two sorts of thinking, how is it that humans have the higher form and animals do not?

The difference is: humans have language Try thinking without using language - you just can't do it. Our thoughts are tied up in our language - lower thought is tied up in physiology.

So what sort of thought does an unborn baby have?

It does not have language

So, we must conclude - it only has lower thought functions. In other words, it is not a human before it is born. After it is born, it starts the process of becoming a human, by learning language.

We have no qualms about killing an animal, because it cannot think like us, if it could we would find killing it morally repugnant. So, if it is necessary, we can abort a baby, as it is a person in potentia only.

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