well i mean it has potential of life

But, it has the potential to then have potential

Your stance is not potential then

but potential of life can also be, as komrade said, lost in menstruation/'jerking off'

I've defined potential as beginning the moment a zygote is formed, numerous times. I'm not really sure what you're getting at

Define potential

I just did in the sentence above....

BillcatToday at 10:30 AM
I've defined potential as beginning the moment a zygote is formed

And previous to this, multiple timems

but sperm and egg has potential

Potential, in this context, would be the ability for a human to form if natural processes, beginning with the formation of a zygote, are left unimpeded

they have potential to become zygote

And we're back to square one, smh

they have potential to become potential lmao

yea

ouch that hurt

Ok, but I don't care about the potential to become potential

The potential argument is a continuous regression

so that's still potential, it's just less potential

I only care about potential

but everything has potential

I would consider killing a potential life a regression, komrade, but to each their own

sperm is potential for potential

everything is lol ashna

Okay, what if the zygote impedes on the mother's potential

potential for potential for life = potential for life

As in, the fetus could eventually harm the mother?

Like some sort of pregnancy complication?

ye

what if the mother knows the child has no potential

Yes, both economically, socially, and medically

thomas no

youchie

For example a teen pregnancy has less potential to get the job they want or to continue in their life

You would then be impeding on the mom's potential

Medically yes, if the mother's life is at risk then the fetus would be unviable anyway, and even if you could save the fetus while killing the mother I think that a current life has precedent over potential life

also in cases of rape. billcat, sperm and egg = potential for life right? do you think abortion should be allowed in cases of rape

"Socially an economically?" No, that's just a cheap excuse to absolve somebody of a poor choice with a poorer solution

so you would save a potential life by killing a already living human

So, then by saying "current life has precedent over potential life" it would be morally wrong to force a mother to have a child which would ruin her current life for a potential of life

I'll start by responding to ashnaa, Once we can agree on the vast majority of abortion cases, then we can address each outlier group