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Originally Posted by Libertine
No, we destroy it because it cannot think yet. We cannot get its decision because it has no decision. For much of the pregnancy, it doesn't have a brain developed far enough to support anything that could be considered full-fledged consciousness yet.
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This is irrelevant. You're still imposing your value judgement on a would-be human or potential as you call it. If all fertilized eggs today were destroyed and no new ones created, humanity would die out in the near future. They're one and the same thing only at different stages of progression. Our distinctions of when it's ok to kill or not to kill is ambigious.