When is a lump of grown-up cells a person?
When does it stop being a person?
Calling something a lump doesn't negate it's humanity.
As @robrigo already shared, the answer to that question is subjective, which means my answer may differ from yours.
I believe that a conceived human (embryo, lump, fetus, ball of cells, etc.) will turn into a human if the process is left uninterrupted.
The goal of an abortion may not be to end a life, only to prevent it, but either way, that child "loses" it's life, whether we choose to believe it had already began or not.
My point was that no child, unborn or not, is a parasite.
Does that make sense?
Okay, first of all let me say that I think this parasite argument is really stupid.
Secondly, let me ask you another thing: Do you believe in the afterlife?
I agree about the parasite thing.
And for the question, yes.
So if you believe in the afterlife then isn't death also part of the continuum of life? I mean, it's just a dramatic translation, just like birth or conception, right?
Do you believe in the afterlife?
When do you think that an unborn child becomes "a person"?
I agree that one will not get from this life into the afterlife without dying.
@papa-pepper, I don't know if there is an afterlife. But I know there is this life, and in this life people sometimes have to choose the lesser evil, and who are you to judge?
Moral choices are always hard, and sometimes even agonizing. But when people sometimes have to make them, even if they are life and death decisions, we shouldn't put them in the position where they have to make excuses.