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> death of a newborn isn't significantly different from the death of a fetus

Sounds like you are trying to quantify (the value of) life. What about mentally handicapped people, are they deemed not valuable humans in your eyes because they are not intelligent?

Am pro-abortion in extreme cases involving rape or abuse. But am also anti-abortion and pro-life. Not sure if there's a category for people who hold this idea.

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The real-world error bars are quite wide because of the impact of moral character on a person's value, but sight unseen I would give the last seat in the life boat to the non-mentally-disabled person almost every time, yes.

Am pro-abortion in extreme cases involving rape or abuse

See, now that's a viewpoint I don't understand at all. The question of whether or not killing a fetus is killing a person is not affected by the circumstances of that fetus's creation.

A life isn't really that simple to define but yes. There are many "sins" external to the creation of life that warrant consideration of carrying a pregnancy to term. Some of them include inbreeding. At that point am okay with letting the society or the creators decide on the baby but am a bit more liberal on life created as a result of violence or psychological manipulation.

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