Bill Burr on abortion
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Because whether you want an apple tree, palm tree or a fir, that acorn will always grow into an oak tree. The only difference is if you kill it before it has that chance to grow. It doesn't matter how many people outside the acorn say that it's just a clump of cells, if you let it grow it becomes an oak tree.
Because if you don't as I said, there are millions of people who lack the ability to live on their own, so why should they be given legal protection if a fertilized egg doesn't?
But does that make it an actual oak tree, and we don't treat it as such.
You seem to be arguing against the pro-abortion position that the fertilized egg is not "human". I'm not making that argument. Obviously, it is a human organism. But it's nowhere near developed enough to merit legal protection of any kind.
Like I said: they are viable: they're not attached to someone else's body for sustenance, nor will they die if they are disconnected.
Why does anyone merit legal protection of any kind?
Aside from being an arbitrary and subjective standard, it's also dumb and false.
We all depend on someone else's body for sustenance. Where do you think food comes from? 410 farm workers died on the job last year in the USA. Farming is one of the deadliest jobs.
I assume because I am more valuable than a clump of cells.
And they provide this voluntarily. There's no one person you can point to and say that you depend on that person.
If you did though, would that mean that this individual is in bondage to you, that he has to perform unpaid services to ensure that you stay alive? I'd say only if this is what you chose.
You are a clump of cells.
That wasn't part of your argument. In any case, the vast majority of pregnancies that are terminated are the predictable and avoidable consequence of voluntary behavior. Nobody considers obligations incurred in such a manner to be "bondage".