Your problem here is not so much your atheism...
Then why bring it up. It's inconsequential to any argument I use.
...but your lurch to emotionalism as a response to a rational question. Children do that sort of thing quite often.
You're confusing what you think is my emotionalism with what the mother exhibits when she considers the difference between a frozen embryo and a baby. You are still determined to ignore the basic fact that everyone treats them completely differently. Even if, in your case, you are determined to deny it. Note the recent refusal to answer the hypothetical about which should be saved if it could only be one or the other.
Notwithstanding that the par for the course is exactly what you are accusing me of: 'But you can't have an abortion, it's a tiny person!'
Judge to the accused: "What do you have to say in your defense?"
Accused to the judge: "Your honor, I didn't feel that the person I murdered was a human being."
What a woman feels about early pregnancies and how she considers them compared go full term pregnancy is not the defence. Not that it needs to be defended. The
reason she would have an early abortion versus a very late one is because she considers what she is carrying in each case to be completely different. What she
feels is simply an indication of that. But you'll ignore that fact even though we all know it to be true.
Again, I suggest you try 'We know there's a difference, but...' as opposed to 'There is no difference, so...'
I put to you essentially the same question that another professed atheist unartfully tried to dodge:
So, exactly when should a mother (and father) begin to love their child?
When
should they? What a very odd thing to ask.
My wife and I spent a couple of hours on our wedding day thinking of names for the children we hoped to have. We loved the idea of having them. When she eventually became pregnant - oops, sorry...when she was with child, we loved the thought that we were going to have kids. And our attachment to, our love for that prospective child grew as the eventual pregnancy progressed. I know that as a fact because years later she had a miscarriage. It was upsetting. But nothing in comparison to what we would have felt had she lost the baby a week before giving birth.
But hey. Ignore that answer. It doesn't fit with what you believe.
