From a lefty I know..."Yeah, it's murder, but that's okay as long as I view the victim as an inconvenience."
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Nobody forced you to open your legs 99% of the time (1% of abortions occur because of rape).
That's it.
That's the argument.
Close your legs, take a pill, wear a condom - plenty of autonomy there alone. Actions, outcomes, and consequences are a part of autonomy; you are an active participant. If you make your womb into an ontological paradox for the sake of a momentary spasm, using no protections, none of the actual autonomy you are afforded, you are the problem.
Take accountability for your actions, otherwise you really DO "have less autonomy than a corpse".
The unborn is a person in an early stage of development life like a child or infant; attempting to demarcate what separates one person in an early stage of development from another early stage of development is a fool's errand, even "Thompson's Violinist" concedes this.
Parents have a POSITIVE moral obligation to care for their children. Don't believe me? Stop feeding your kids and see what happens.
Ergo, the unborn have a right to the support of their mother's body, or more accurately, mothers have a POSITIVE moral obligation to provide support to their unborn.
This, by the way, is my standard response to "there is no non-religious reason to oppose abortion."
EDIT: This fellow really needs to square "It doesn't matter if it is a person" with "Nobody has the right to...". It seems he has unwittingly conceded something.