Abortion: why do people think it's not a baby that's being killed?

From the moment a sperm cell and an egg cell unite, the process of human development begins -- at least that's what the textbooks say. Right?
This is a genuine question. Only genuine answers are necessary.
No hate, please.

Killing is the ending of life, and we may define life at any point from conception to birth.

Anti-abortions argue for protecting all life because it is their religious belief that all life is sacred.

Pro-abortions argue for giving a woman her choice whether or not to carry a baby. Perhaps she was a caucasian woman raped by an african american man and did not want to carry the baby, or perhaps she was a young teenager who was not ready to take care of a baby and that is why they may want to abort.

This is a matter of opposing beliefs for whom everyone is entitled.

Well I'm pretty sure everyone who is thinking of getting an abortion or who gets an abortion knows that they're killing a baby. People choose to get abortions because they feel they're not ready to take care of a child or it was a mistake and don't know how they will handle taking care of a child or provide support for it.

Technically, the process of human development begins when the sperm and egg are formed. So allowing any of those to go to waste is wrong too, according to that logic.

The concept of when life begins is a complicated one. Develop too strict a definition, and the skin cells your body sloughs off are alive. Use to loose a definition, and it should be legal to kill your offspring until they're adults. That's why, I believe, up to a point, it should be a decision left up to individuals to determine their own morality.

Please also include fertility clinics in your ire at abortion. Once a couple has successfully conceived, they destroy large numbers of these same fertilized eggs that have begun this process of development.

You can also consider the embryo as a parasite on the mother. Different point of view. I would not dream of telling you what to think or forcing you to have an abortion you didn't want. Could you return the favor?

BTW, I get pencils with erasers. Don't you? Nobody TRIES to make mistakes.

[maxNalisha]

Abortion clinics **some** dont tell the girls or whoever goes with them what excactly an abortion is and what excactly is being aborted from the body, they say it is "tissue" just some blood clots. Girls definately need to be better informed but some of them right when they hear or see a pregnant answer, they get an automatic response of ABORTION, they dont research anything or goto a real doctor to know how much of a miracle they have. It is not there faults it is there decision but not knowing the truth about alot of it is something alot of girls go through or being pushed into it also.

[jen0608]

Everyone knows that when they do an abortion they are killing the baby. They just think that it's not yet a human it's just a blood.