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Does the human fetus have any value and any rights?

The first trimester of your pregnancy is from weeks 1 to 12.

Dennis Prager talks about one of the most emotionally charged subjects there is — abortion — but in an unemotional way. Dennis Prager

Let’s begin with this question: Does the human fetus have any value and any rights? And that’s Moral Argument Number One: A living being doesn’t have to be a person in order to have intrinsic moral value and rights.

And this is Moral Argument Number Two: On what moral grounds does the mother alone decide a fetus’s worth?  We certainly don’t do that with regard to a newborn child.  It is society, not the mother — or the father — that determines whether a newborn child has worth and a right to live.

And that’s Moral Argument Number Three.  No one ever asks a pregnant woman, “How’s your body?” when asking about the fetus.  People ask, “How’s the baby?”