To me, the argument "it's not a person" is very weak. Once conception occurs a new human life has begun, even if it ISN'T a person (which I disagree) the qualifier is "yet" - when you snuff out that life you are cutting short an entire lifetime. If you didn' t kill it, it would continue to grow, become a child, then a teenager, and finally an adult, might get married, have children of their own, make a mark on the world for good or bad. All that is gone when you kill that "non-person" - not only their life but all of the potential lives that might have come from him/her. Possibly thousands or millions.
And before someone argues "well contraception does the same thing" - no it doesn't. There is no new human being at that point, and might never have been even without the contraception. But after conception, you can't say that. There IS a new life at that point who WILL grow into a new person if you don't kill him/her first. To me, it is just as bad as if you killed an infant or a 5 year old. You are destroying an entire lifetime for that being.
And before someone argues "well contraception does the same thing" - no it doesn't. There is no new human being at that point, and might never have been even without the contraception. But after conception, you can't say that. There IS a new life at that point who WILL grow into a new person if you don't kill him/her first. To me, it is just as bad as if you killed an infant or a 5 year old. You are destroying an entire lifetime for that being.
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