Sorry JLM, but I don’t think the position that human life begins at conception, that abortion is murder, it should be banned in all circumstances, and doctors and women who participate in abortions should be imprisoned, that is not the position that one can compromise with or even try to understand. To me, it is an extreme, religious, fanatic position.
There can be no compromise with such a position. After all, what would be the compromise with such a position? Put the doctor (and the woman) in prison for only five years, not ten years?
There can be no compromise.
This highlights the biggest flaw in the pro-choice logic. Because Joey doesn't like the logical outcome of accepting the fetus as human he makes up excuses not to accept the fetus as human. This was the same approach taken by religious leaders that couldn't accept that the world was not the center of the universe. The logical conclusion to the theory was that the Church was wrong. They argued against it, not from a logical or scientific perspective but, purely because they couldn't accept the logical results.
For a guy that claims to embrace science, he sure does a bad job of it.