This is what I am saying. Convinced me that a zygote should not have rights. Note that talking about consciousness or the relative size of the zygote aren’t relevant to whether a zygote is granted rights.
I think that if we want to charge people for murder if they attack a pregnant person and cause a miscarriage, then we naturally have to grant a zygote the right to life. However, just because we do this does not mean that right to life cannot be infringed. Human adults have a right to life until they attempt to kill someone, for example, at which point we say that their right to life is no longer as important as the other person’s right to defend themselves.
I see no issues granting a zygote rights and still granting a pregnant person’s right to bodily autonomy.
The same way I can say “humans have a right to life” and “humans are allowed to kill someone in self defense”. No rights are absolute, especially when they come into conflict with other rights.
See the problem is that they aren’t humans, and those rights are in direct conflict with actual humans.
Future humans isn’t a thing within this context, and to get ME on board with that you’d have to convince me you’re hurting someone. A zygote isn’t a someone. The clump of cells argument is some stupid parroted catchphrase liberals use, but at the end of the day that is what it is, and it is different than an actual living human on a fundamental level.
This is what I am saying. Convinced me that a zygote should not have rights. Note that talking about consciousness or the relative size of the zygote aren’t relevant to whether a zygote is granted rights.
I think that if we want to charge people for murder if they attack a pregnant person and cause a miscarriage, then we naturally have to grant a zygote the right to life. However, just because we do this does not mean that right to life cannot be infringed. Human adults have a right to life until they attempt to kill someone, for example, at which point we say that their right to life is no longer as important as the other person’s right to defend themselves.
I see no issues granting a zygote rights and still granting a pregnant person’s right to bodily autonomy.
How do you not see those things as diametrically opposed to each other?
The same way I can say “humans have a right to life” and “humans are allowed to kill someone in self defense”. No rights are absolute, especially when they come into conflict with other rights.
See the problem is that they aren’t humans, and those rights are in direct conflict with actual humans.
Future humans isn’t a thing within this context, and to get ME on board with that you’d have to convince me you’re hurting someone. A zygote isn’t a someone. The clump of cells argument is some stupid parroted catchphrase liberals use, but at the end of the day that is what it is, and it is different than an actual living human on a fundamental level.
What do you think makes a zygote “not human”? Your stances seems contrary to basic biology.