Abortion and the Hubris of Knowledge
As a philosopher-theorist for thirty plus years, abortion is not simple. Stop pretending it is.
ME: I don’t know (1) when or how gradually a fetus becomes a person, (2) nor how to balance that with mom’s bodily autonomy or the dangers of the state enforcing bans (e.g., on zygote-aborting next-day-pills). It’s super complicated.
THEM: Stop pretending to know everything!!!
My understanding of Aristotle's position on abortion is that it was nuanced, with a sliding scale of guilt for abortion, from conception to birth, not so controversial at the beginning, and frankly murder at the end, with varying degrees of guilt in-between. Determining when life begins is easier than determining when life becomes valuable and ethically protected. Is that at the same time or later? If later, then when?
Another complication (from a naturopathic physician's acquaintance with a very small portion of the vast plant kingdom):
An estimated 400 known abortifacient plants are native to North America. Did God or Satan plant them? Did they just evolve? Are they to be eliminated?
Acknowledging that there are logical fallacies and hypocrisy on all sides I do find it useful to point out some of the bigger ones. Like the my body my choice argument applying to abortion but not vaccines.
But here's another inconsistency. Comes from the "scientific" justification for transgenderism. This claim that is used to support non-genital-based gender identification. Science that puts forth the idea that since a zygote doesn't have distinct genitalia and the XX, XY chromosomes have different characteristics in the formative stage of a fetus that initial moment of indistinct characteristics is the basis for gender fluidity, the presence of male or female genitals are non-determinative.
To assert this as the science that transgender identity is based in, as biopsychologists do, is to assert the zygote stage represents the moment of creation of human life, with characteristics that one's identity is derived from. The science of transgender identity is, in fact, the science that the pro-life movement makes in their principled opposition to abortion.
It is possible to be a hypocrite, most of us are about somethings in life. But we should at least be aware of our hypocrisy when we are guilty of it.
https://www.scq.ubc.ca/genetics-of-sex-and-gender-identity/