my official stance is a pregnancy is whatever the pregnant woman wants it to be. if it’s a 4 week old clump of cells and she wants to call it a baby it’s a baby. if she’s 20 weeks and she wants to call it a parasite it’s a parasite. if she’s 39 weeks and calls it a fetus it’s a fetus. “why are you so sad about miscarrying at 6 weeks it was literally just an embryo” because that was her baby. “how can you get an abortion at three months” because that wasn’t a baby. hope that helps.
This is pretty much the only take that makes any sense to me.
“It’s just a lump of cells!” Doesn’t matter, so am I and so are you. Abortion is morally acceptable not because of relative lumpiness but because of bodily autonomy.
Bellying up for a shot of salt, goats come from miles around to ingest a solution of various mineral salts seeping from a cliff known as Walton Goat Lick in Glacier National Park, National Geographic, April 1995
