1. 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.

2. 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.

1. 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.

2. 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."