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But how does that define a human? All animals start out the same way. There is no link between the fact that humans start out as a dependent fetus, and their status as humans. Additionally, how is the fetus NOT dependent after a certain point? Wouldn't still be dependent on a whole team of doctors and machines if it is to be extracted? How about infants, aren't they utterly dependent on their caretakers? Wouldn't a baby die if you do not directly intervene to keep it alive? Is it okay to kill babies too? Believe it or not, some on the extreme of the pro-choice side say YES! And not a few crazies either.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/...s-no-different-from-abortion-experts-say.html
These people are not stupid. That is indeed where the argument of dependence takes us. Is that really the moral outlook we should adopt? Is that really the definition we want for what a human is?
If the definition is independent then we could abort all the way through age 12 to 16 on most kids, much later on some, like my neighbor's "kid" who is 30 and in no way could live on by his loser self.