And 150 years ago, people didn’t think slaves were fully human. The fact that people in the past thought something doesn’t make it actually true.
But the debate about abortion in America is not about edge cases, but about abortion-on-demand for third trimester abortion right up until moments before a woman gives birth. Let’s review the “partial birth abortion”, which is what abortion advocates and the left tell us should be legal:
During the surgery, the fetus is removed from the uterus in the breech position. If the fetal presentation is not breech, forceps or manual manipulation can be used to turn it to a breech presentation while in the uterus (internal version). The fetal skull is usually the largest part of the fetal body and its removal may require mechanical collapse if it is too large to fit through the cervical canal. Decompression of the skull can be accomplished by incision and suction of the brain or by using forceps to collapse the skull
In other words, a baby exactly the same size as a newborn literally has its skull stabbed open and its brains sucked out, or it’s crushed through sheer force from a pair of forceps.
I don’t think it should be legal to crush a baby’s skull or stab it and suck its brains out.