Argument Against Abortion

The common argument for Abortions is that the fetus or embryo is a part of the Woman’s body. Of course the part that follows that is the woman has the right to do whatever they want to their own body, but what is it that defines what a body is? A body is defined as the physical structure and material substance of an animal or plant, living or dead. So a body is the physical portions of a person, their arms, legs, head, etc.

However you must take other things into consideration. Siamese twins have connected bodies, sometimes having only two arms between them. They are sometimes separable and others not, but lets make a fictional account of Siamese twins that cannot be separated.

The twins will be called Rob and John. They cannot be separated without John dying. Rob really wants to be free of John, he wants to live on his own. So he kills John and pays a discreet doctor to remove John from him. Technically John was a part of Rob, so can it be considered murder? Of course, No one will argue that. Rob was selfish, he wanted to live alone and killed his brother so he could do it. Isn’t that the same thing a pregnant woman seeking an abortion wants? To live their life without the child they are carrying?

A body’s cells all have the same DNA in them. This is true for both men and women. An embryo has different DNA from their mother, the mothers 23 chromosomes mix with 23 chromosomes from the father. Therefore embryo has different cells from the rest of the mother’s body, if DNA is what decides the way a body is developed then it isn’t much of a stretch to say that DNA what defines a persons body. So having different DNA makes the embryo a separate organism from the mother and not a part of her body.