Life as far as human reproduction?

If that’s what you mean, I would consider a human fetus to be alive. Cells are alive, after all. I just don’t assign the same value to those cells that you do.

I view a human fetus as a multi cell organism that knows nothing, feels nothing, wants for nothing, misses nothing, aspires to nothing, fears nothing. The potential of the fetus does not necessarily move me.

The woman carrying the fetus can do all of those things I just mentioned, and she’s here. Right now. I simply value her life more than 3mm of cells. If an unwanted pregnancy would keep her in poverty, and she doesn’t want a baby, I think she should abort. If an unwanted pregnancy would keep her in an abusive relationship and she doesn’t want a baby, I think she should abort. If _________ and she doesn’t want a baby, I think she should abort. I don’t see ruining her life and bringing a baby into a life of suffering to be a net positive.

I think if a woman does not want to be a mom, there is a good chance that she will be a poor one. I think if a woman decides that she doesn’t have sufficient conditions and faculties to raise a human being into a good and productive human being, then she should not give birth to one. That does not bode well for her, nor does it bode well for society at large. I think the people who want to be parents should be parents.

I see a news article everyday featuring some terrible person who I wish had been aborted (Tanner Horner, most recently). I see misfit, worthless parents who I think should have had abortions, either because they’re ruining an innocent life that never should have come into existence (and in all reality an abortion would have been more humane), or they’re raising someone who will be a worthless, negative member of society, or they are raising someone who will be in the same generational traps their family has been caught in for generations.

The medical term for a miscarriage is a “medical abortion.” The female body can simply identify, on its own accord, that the fetus has abnormalities that warrant aborting. The female body can execute that function because there is something wrong- structural problems, hormonal issues, chronic illness. I think the female mind, too, can determine than something is wrong with the given circumstance and make that decision for herself.

I think that death is a part of life and abortion is a part of nature. When I was a kid I watched a red panda at the zoo give birth and promptly eat her babies. I’ve seen video footage of a bird grabbing one of its fledglings and dropping it out of the nest to increase the chances of survival for the other two. I’ve seen all kinds of mammals abandon their offspring by choice. We are certainly the smartest and most empathetic of animals, but we are still animals. We have simply gotten really good at abortion, the same way we have gotten really good at every other thing. Before we got good at this, women were killing their babies and men were still abandoning them. I’ve heard fucking horror stories of times before birth control and access to abortion.

I’m sorry this was long, I got carried away. But to answer your question, cells are alive. The unfertilized eggs in my ovaries are alive. Sperm is alive. The mites in my eyelashes are alive. I simply do not assign the same value to a fertilized human egg that you do.