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I think that the stage of development at which we place immutable value on human life is culturally arbitrary, is not moored in objectivity, and depends on many factors, including the convenience of the parents who would have to take care of it after it is carried to term. Agency, ability to feel pain, ability to live independently of the mother, etc. These are, at the end of the day, arguments that take a stab at supporting our points of view. There literally is no right answer to this question, and never will be, -only what we believe to be right and moral culturally. I think the juxtaposition of a living group of developing cells within another human will never yield a morally unassailable majority belief.