It missrepresents the position of those who oppose abortion. These are deep seated and often religious convictions. Yes some politicians manipulate that for political purposes but that's not why large numbers of people oppose abortion, so that they can manipulate the issue to gain political powers. I also think it's innappropriate to question their motives.
I'm sorry SF but characterizing all those who support pro-choice by the comments of a few individuals on this board is a strawman.
So to be morally consistant you would agree that all wars should be illegal?
bulshit called and your bullshit raised. Please provide a citation. I believe Jarod is factually correct.
He did? Seriously? LOLYes, you have already demonstrated some of that knowledge by insisting that that there is a brain at five weeks!!
It demonstrates that his sources are superior to yours. The brain begins developing from the 4th pair of somites on the neural tube into the three primary brain vesicles in the 4th week of development. This is NOT the same thing as having a brain. The brain continues development adding more folds of nueral tissue and developing many of the structures we're familiar with such as, cerebral cortex, retina, thalamus, hypthalamus, pons, cerebrum, cerebellum, after the 20th week (4.5 months) until birth (40th week). This is also about the time (20th week) that that nuerones begin connecting with other neurones to form synaptic connections. With out synaptic connections there is no brain function, so the protobrain of fetal development doesn't occur until midway through fetal development (20th week) and continues well beyond birth.
I tried placenta soup once. To be honest with you it was pretty fucking gross.