If we are under moral obligations to protect every human embryo, then we are under similar obligations to very elderly and severely brain damaged individuals. This would mean that all of us ought to be rushed onto life support at the end of our lives, if we can expect any end. Therefore, the Terri Schiavo predicament is not a dilemma our families will face but the destiny of us all. We can imagine an argument suggesting that it would be morally reprehensible to ever opt to die rather than opting for a new organ regenerated in a petri dish -- this is the future of medical technology.
Let's agree that early-term abortion is murder. This would make it some sort of misdemeanor manslaughter even if we agreed that an embryo is a full human being. But if we were to "go after" the doctors who perform early-term abortions we can expect one day to file murder charges against doctors who refuse to give a 90-yr-old a heart transplant grown from the patient's own cells.
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