hey guys do you ever wonder why lawmakers who claim to be pro-life make it so hard to live life they love the unborn but once you're past the birth canal get a job okay let's get something straight a woman's uterus isn't a potluck and if it was then men are the kind of guests that only bring paper plates the day it should be necessary to get consent from the Father is the day we invent the male uterus we'll call it the du Turris until then our bodies our choice is ending the life of a human fetus moral let's begin with this question does the human fetus have any value and any rights now it's a scientific fact that a human fetus is human life those who argue that the human fetus has no rights say that a fetus is not a person but even if you believe that it doesn't mean the fetus has no intrinsic value for no rights there are many living beings that are not persons that have both value and rights dogs and other animals for example and that's moral argument number one a living being doesn't have to be a person in order to have intrinsic moral value and rights when challenged with this argument people usually change the subject to the rights of the mother meaning the right of a mother to end her fetuses life under any circumstance for any reason and at any time in her pregnancy is that moral it is only if we believe that the human fetus has no intrinsic worth but in most cases nearly everyone believes that the human fetus has essentially infinite Worth and then almost absolute right to live when when a pregnant woman wants to give birth then society and its laws regard the fetus is so valuable that if someone were to kill that fetus that person could be prosecuted for homicide only if a pregnant woman doesn't want to give birth too many people regard the fetus as worthless now does that make sense it doesn't seem to either a human fetus has Worth or it doesn't and this is moral argument number two on what moral grounds does the mother alone decide a fetus is worth we certainly don't do that with regard to a newborn child if it's society not the mother or the father that determines whether a newborn child has Worth and a right to live so the question is why should that be different before the human being is born why does one person a mother get to determine whether that being has any right to live people respond by saying that a woman has the right to control her body now that is entirely correct the problem here however is that the fetus is not her body it is in her body it is a separate body and that's moral argument number three no one ever asks a pregnant woman how's your body when asking about the fetus people ask how's the baby Laurel argument number four virtually everyone agrees that the moment the baby comes out of the womb killing the baby is murder but deliberately killing it a few months before birth is considered no more morally problematic than extracting a tooth how does that make sense and finally moral argument number five aren't there instances in which just about everyone even among those who are pro-choice would acknowledge that an abortion might not be moral for example would it be moral to abort a female fetus solely because the mother prefers boys to girls as has happened millions of times in China and elsewhere and one more example let's say science develops a method of determining whether a child in the womb is gay or straight would it be moral to kill a gay fetus be the mother didn't want a gay child people may offer practical reasons not to criminalize all abortions people may differ about when personhood begins and about the morality of abortion after rape or incest but with regard to the vast majority of abortions those of healthy women aborting a healthy fetus let's be clear most of these abortions just aren't moral good societies can survive people doing immoral things but a good society cannot survive if it calls immoral things more you