Never wrong People wrote:A new life begins when egg and sprem join together.
Killing any life after it is created is murder.
Are you sure about that? 100% sure you don't want to reword that? Because, you know, that would make eating salad = murder.
Abortion is murder.
The person is not a potential one, but is already a person!!!
It is truth that person is 100% dependant on his or her mother for the first stages of life, but it does not mean that the mother has a right to kill that person.
Actually it does, in two ways:
1) Let us pretend for the sake of this point that a 1-week-old embryo really is a person. That does not give little Junior McEmbryo the right to use my body for his purposes against my will. There is no person in the world who has such a right. No one is allowed to take one of my kidneys or lungs or my blood, etc, for their purposes against my will. Even if they will die if they don't get my organs, they cannot force me to give them to them. There is no person on the planet who has any right to hook themselves up to my body and syphon off my nutrients, blood, use my kidneys and liver like some kind of living dialysis machine, etc, against my will.
And yes, if someone tries to take me by force and use me in such a way, I, as the owner of my body and its parts, have the absolute right to defend myself against such a gross intrusion, up to and including deadly force, if need be to get free of them. That means I can kill them if I have to to keep them from using me.
So just because Mr. J. McEmbryo is a person, why should he have rights over me that no other person is allowed to have?
2) From an entirely different angle, you still fail. Let's assume again that Junior McEmbryo is a person. He is, however, NOT a COMPETENT person. That means he is not able to articulate his desires or communicate his needs or his condition to doctors, lawyers, or anyone else. Assuming even that he has any such desires or needs -- he certainly is not able to give any clue that he has any consciousness at all. Obviously, he has zero ability to make decisions for himself about his own care, etc. That means someone who is competent has to act as his proxy. Who better to do that than the competent living person who is acting as his life support? That person -- the pregnant woman -- is the most immediately and drastically affected by everything that happens to little Junior. She is also the adult who has legal custody over him anyway and is his legally recognized guardian endowed with the authority to make decisions for his well-being. And that includes the decision to "pull the plug" and end little Juniors brief life, if need be. Just like she would if he got hit by a truck and was on life support with little or no hope of recovery mere minutes after he was born. Before-his-own-life-begins proxy decisions are not significantly different from end-of-his-own-life proxy decisions.
So on both the issue of ending unwanted pregnancies and ending otherwise wanted pregnancies, there is no one better able to make that decision than the woman, and no one who can be more justifiably endowed with that authority.