During the action, the pro-abortion demonstrators held signs and chanted. When the crowd learned that the anti-choice activists would not be marching, they held an impromptu speak-out. A small group of right-wing extremists who were on the church steps went viral when they were recorded shouting sexist threats at the abortion supporters. One of these young men wore an “America First” cap, tying him to Nick Fuentes’ “Groyper” movement. His identity and that of others on the church steps have since been exposed by local antifascists.
Why? Why does a few months/weeks matter so much? Why are we so casual about ending something that will develop into a human being?
The answer to your question is right there in the question itself - you’re attempting to weigh a person that doesn’t exist against one that does exist. QED, if you ask me.
A nitpick that may help you - you should say “may develop”, not “wil develop”. Odds are better than 50% that any given embryo will spontaneously abort. Typically experienced as a missed period, these episodes do not have the same emotional charge as the loss of a baby, and you should think about why that is.
Many of these spontaneous abortions are preventable or avoidable, incidentally. It would necessitate some inconvenience to actually existing people to do so, and these potential people aren’t worth it, so we don’t. But we could. Can you put together an argument that we should?
I’m just disturbed how casual our society is when it comes to human life.
For example, would you have preferred if your mother have aborted you when you were an embryo or fetus?
Heh, you’re talking to someone with a lumpenproletariat background, so that angle isn’t going to go the way you expect. I won’t get into details, but I can say without hesitation that, yes, it would have been better all round if she had aborted all her children, including me, and I know beyond a doubt that she agrees with me on this. Hopefully you can take the sincerity with which I say this on trust - it’s not about winning an argument on the internet.
My previous post actually rested on how our society treats “human life”, and how we are more casual about it when it is undeveloped, and less casual about it when it is more-developed. I urge you to read it again and think carefully about the request I made of you. “Human life” is not undifferentiated. Not everything we can put under that banner is the same. Being casual about the ending of some of it doesn’t necessitate us being casual about the ending of all of it.