"There is a moral question about whether a fetus is a human life."
Except that's entirely irrelevant to the issue. It doesn't matter whether a fetus is "a life" or not, because even if a fully grown and sentient adult person, who we can all agree is obviously "a life", were connected to your body to live...you would still have every right to deny that person further use of your body, even if that decision means they die. The abortion issue is entirely about bodily autonomy and consent over who can or cannot use your body, for any reason; the status of life of the other person is completely irrelevant.
"There is a moral question about whether killing this fetus causes them pain."
Sure, but again: it is entirely irrelevant to the issue. It may obviously influence your personal decision, but how another person feels is not relevant to the decisions YOU are allowed to make over your body and who can use it. Even if it was incredibly painful to the fetus, or even to our hypothetical grown adult person, it still would NOT give them any right over use of your body, even if your decision hurts or kills them. We would simply create means of alleviating pain during the process, just as we already do for painful medical procedures.
"There is a moral question regarding whether or not, aborting, an unborn child will cause permanent detriment to the mother."
Well, I'm not sure what the "moral question" is here, but we do already know, statistically and psychologically, that the answer is overwhelmingly no. Physically, abortion complications are estimated at only around 2%, and even the majority of those are only considered minor regardless, according to the National Institutes of Health (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK430793/#:~:text=The%20total%20abortion%2Drelated%20complication,%2C%20and%20post%2Danesthesia%20complications.). Mentally, studies have also shown that most women experience little to no negative issues, if at all, years after getting an abortion, such as this popular UCSF study that showed around 84% of women reported positive or neutral feelings years later, and over 95% claim they don't regret the decision (https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/01/416421/five-years-after-abortion-nearly-all-women-say-it-was-right-decision-studyRead more
"When is there a heartbeat?"
Well, the common misconception is that a heartbeat is detectable at around 6 weeks, however, this "heartbeat" is actually just a flutter caused by electrical signals in the cells that will eventually form the heart, and is only detectable via ultrasound. An actual heartbeat takes around 10-12 weeks, as that is about how long it takes for anything resembling a real heart to actually form, along with a detectable rhythm.
But again, as already mentioned above, this is still also completely irrelevant to the abortion issue...
"What really is when the mothers life is in danger as opposed to convenience. I Hundred percent oppose abortion for convenience or for sex choice."
Why does it matter? You still have the right to bodily autonomy and consent over who can or cannot use your body, for any or no reason, right? Unless you believe that your consent over the use of your body should be able to be circumstantially overridden, then "why" someone else chooses to do, or not do, something shouldn't be relevant. Other people will undoubtedly make personal medical decisions for reasons that you may disagree with, but that's still their decision to make, even if you think it's a bad one. This entire abortion "issue" is solely about our right over our bodily decisions.
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