I am glad to read your well-considered opinion based on reason and understanding such facts as we can ferret out of our extant nescience regarding when our humanity begins.
"I personally believe that we should have our definitions straight: there's an embryo, a foetus and a baby."
I think it's a little simpler than that. People have rights. At some point a person is present in the womb, once the brain is organized and capable of generating whatever it is that we call a person. There are questions as to when a person is extant in the womb, and this leaves us unable to say with certainty when abortion becomes murder. Given that no one has a right to murder another person, however much more convenient it would be were the victim to die, it is critically important to human rights to ensure we do not cross this line. If we are to err, it is right and lawful we err on the side of caution, IMHO.
There are many opportunities prior to that formation of a human person to prevent potential liability for murder during abortion, and we are all responsible to undertake them fully before risking murder. There are various social problems that limit the practice of prudence in reality, and these should be better resolved long before we advocate murder to solve problems that unwanted pregnancies pose us. Men also should be accorded rights equivalent to the responsibilities we are charged with as well, and this is extremely neglected in this debate. Abortion and parenting are not matters affecting only women. It does indeed take two to tango, and parents of both sexes have rights as well as responsibilities equal to their roles.
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