Isn't this logic scary?

Question

please refer to the question below, to urbanbulldogge's answer:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ak6YXnckL_Row6yjXQv0GqTsy6IX?qid=20060808200843AA3K1D1

"Now, as this fetus cannot survive outside of the womb independantly it is not considered human - it is a POTENTIAL human... to remove a fetus that cannot survive on tis own is not murder. "

Question: If a human fetus is not considered human because it cannot live independently from its parent, and therefore is not murder to kill it, what's to stop anyone else from making the decision to abort a fetus (husband, boyfriend, doctor, government, some dude on the street, etc), since it is not classified as human?

Is abortion a case of creating a law to remove guilt over removing unwanted children by murder?

Answer 1

There are very valid arguments against abortion. This isn't really one of them. But to answer your question: the reason the law would be in place would be to protect the MOTHER; that is anyone else coming along and killing the fetus would be "mean" in that you're taking the choice away from that woman, but it wouldn't be murder.