That's because you don't believe it's a human being. Just like a slave owner considered it's slaves to be no more than the equivalent of an oxen. To the abolitionist the slave was a human being, as much as you hate it, it's exactly the same thing.
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Now you are saying the child fresh out of the womb is able to perform labor? At this point you're arguing it's not a human being even after exiting the womb.
If you kill a child as soon as it leaves the womb are you killing a human? Or are you killing something that's not human? Or does some magic event take place the moment the child passes through the fleshy curtains?
You do understand your "certain point" becomes a smaller window as technology advances, right? This suggests your logic is flawed if we have been able to save the life of younger and younger pre-mature births over time.
We also have to ponder the question in the case of "test tube babies". Is this human alive, then dead when planted in the womb and then comes back to life again?
I did come by a bit of irony tonight as we have hashed this argument out once again, from the Harvard school of law:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortne...ights-n2333231
P.S. If you are missing the irony part, they are using the 14th amendment to make the case. It's exactly the same situation we faced with slavery.
How is this a things that made you laugh thread?
Abortion is the same as slavery
Oh, there it is.
Neveragain just went full retard.