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You are right, I thought it was some kind of stoicism.

I would say it’s a part of it, in the process of becoming a complete human.

We could say that abortion is a fractional murder




Murder is a holistic concept; it admits no possibility of fractionality. Ask yourself: what does it mean to do 60% of a murder?

Philosophers have, and will continue, to debate the sufficient conditions for humanity. But a conceptus meets none of them, nor does anything that is not independently viable.




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