Abortion Case
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Abortion is the killing of an innocent human person. The killing of an innocent human person is always wrong. Therefore abortion is always wrong.
No one can deny that abortion is killing. Just go talk to an abortion doctor and get a description of what they do to the fetus if you are unsure. It is biological life that is snuffed out.
No one can deny that a fetus is innocent. It has done nothing to deserve being killed. Not even if the fetus is the product of rape of the mother. The fetus doesnt know its mother has been raped. It simply exists. It didnt ask to be the product of rape. Therefore it is innocent.
The fetus is a human person. The fetus is one stage in the life cycle of a human being. A baby is human. A teenager is human. An adult is human. an elderly person is human. Therefore a fetus is also human since it is just one stage of a human life. Killing the fetus also kills all other stages in that persons life since those stages would have potentially existed but no longer can.
Therefore abortion is killing an innocent human person.
Now, let us consider the only 4 possibilities.
1. The fetus is a human person and you know it. (murder)
2. The fetus is a human person and you dont know it. (manslaughter)
3. The fetus is not a human person but you dont know it. (morally evil)
4. The fetus is not a human person and you know it. (only case that could justify abortion)
In the first case, it is murder since you know the fetus is an innocent human person yet you deliberately kill it. That is in fact the legal definition of murder, to knowingly kill another innocent human person.
In the second case it is still manslaughter since although you did not know it was a human you still killed it. This would be like:
a. Fumigating a dormitory without checking to see if all the people were out and you killed somebody.
b. Shooting at a noise in the bush while your hunting that could be a deer or it could be another hunter. And it turned out to be another hunter that you killed.
In the third case you would still be acting morally evil because although you would not be killing a human life you still believe that you could be and therefore are acting in a way that is consistent with either manslaughter or murder. This would be like:
a. Fumigating a dormitory without checking to see if everyone was out, except that you got lucky and no one was there.
b. Shooting at the noise in the bush when you know it could be another hunter. The fact that it turned out to be