Abortion is not killing of anyone; abortion is to abort the biological process which would eventually yield a human being.
A body without consciousness is not a human being, human is both body and mind*, body alone is never a human being; it's just a lump of organs, whether living or not.
Consciousness never exists before the fetus is delivered, and anything done to the fetus before that is not an action that is done to a human being.
Ascribing a "sacred" status to a functioning organ has nothing to do with science or morality; it is based on a religious myth that tells the dwelling of a mythical entity, named "soul", in that functioning organ.
This myth distinguished a functioning organ from a non functioning one by the dwelling of a "soul" in the functioning organ and the departing of a "soul" from the non functioning one.
By connecting this "soul" here on earth to that "God" who is up in heaven, since they are both not perceivable, the functioning organ became "sacred" and life became a "miracle" of "God".
Clearly this whole myth has nothing to do with science or logic, science distinguishes a functioning organ with the persistence of chemical reactions not with the presence of a "soul". Life in science is metabolism; life in classical religion is "God".
Therefore, the claim that aborting a fetus, that has never been conscious, is an offense against a human being is not true. Abortion is an offense against religion which holds that mere metabolism is sacred. Abortion may also be questioned from the side of whether not wanting a new human being to exist is moral or not. But it is definitely not a harm done to any existing human being, and so can't be deemed as an offense to anybody.
*In fact, human is only mind, but this is philosophy.
A body without consciousness is not a human being, human is both body and mind*, body alone is never a human being; it's just a lump of organs, whether living or not.
Consciousness never exists before the fetus is delivered, and anything done to the fetus before that is not an action that is done to a human being.
Ascribing a "sacred" status to a functioning organ has nothing to do with science or morality; it is based on a religious myth that tells the dwelling of a mythical entity, named "soul", in that functioning organ.
This myth distinguished a functioning organ from a non functioning one by the dwelling of a "soul" in the functioning organ and the departing of a "soul" from the non functioning one.
By connecting this "soul" here on earth to that "God" who is up in heaven, since they are both not perceivable, the functioning organ became "sacred" and life became a "miracle" of "God".
Clearly this whole myth has nothing to do with science or logic, science distinguishes a functioning organ with the persistence of chemical reactions not with the presence of a "soul". Life in science is metabolism; life in classical religion is "God".
Therefore, the claim that aborting a fetus, that has never been conscious, is an offense against a human being is not true. Abortion is an offense against religion which holds that mere metabolism is sacred. Abortion may also be questioned from the side of whether not wanting a new human being to exist is moral or not. But it is definitely not a harm done to any existing human being, and so can't be deemed as an offense to anybody.
*In fact, human is only mind, but this is philosophy.