Pro Life Response

PRO-ABORTION ARGUMENT:
"The fetus may be alive, but so are eggs and sperm. The fetus is a potential human being, not an actual one; it's like a blueprint not a house, an acorn not an oak tree."



PRO-LIFE ANSWERS:

1. The ovum and sperm are each a product of another's body; unlike the fertilized egg, neither is an independent entity.

2. The physical remains after an abortion indicate the end not of a potential life but of an actual life.

3. Something nonhuman does not become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human must be human from the beginning.

4. Comparing preborns and adults to acorns and oaks is duhumanizing and misleading.

5. Even if the analogy were valid, scientifically speaking an acorn is simply a little oak tree, just as an embryo is a little person.