Fairness First

Many anti-choice people will insist that a pregnancy at any stage is a "person" or "human".  This is manifestly untrue.  Let's take a zygote, for example.   When we think of what a person is we think of certain features, abilities, and characteristics.  A person can move, think,  feel pain, feel pleasurable sensations,  eat,  laugh,  love, hate,  and  make plans for the future (even if the future is only the next few seconds).  By that universally accepted standard a zygote is in no way a person - it can do none of that, it is capable of nothing we think of a person being able to do.  Now I hear some of you angrily insisting a zygote is human and I'll grant you that it's human in the same sense that one of my fingernail clippings is human - it originates from a human,  it is of a human, it is human matter, but it is NOT a human being, it is NOT a person.  A zygote merits no more consideration than a mosquito biti...

 I  had moved away from home at 19 and started school  in MooseJaw.  I don't  recall exactly how it came to pass, but I was at this guy's place (let's call him Dave)  and we talked for an hour or two.  Or I should say mostly he talked and I listened.  He went on and on about how much he couldn't stand gays and talked about him and his friends going to a gay bar and beating up some gays and yelling at them "And tell  all  your friends!".  He also went on and about a friend of his who had told Dave he was gay.  "He's not gay.  I told him "You're not gay, you're  just confused..." perhaps as much trying to convince himself as me. At the time I was feeling ashamed and horrified by my attraction to males and a  couple of years earlier I had found that by vehemently thinking about how angry gays made me and how much I hated and rejected them I could push awareness of those attractions out of my mind and convince myself...