Then a 1 week old baby is not a human being. A baby (even after it is born), is not biologically self-sufficient, it still depends on its mother for food. Could a mother simply decide that she doesn't want to feed her baby and just let it die? It is HER body, right?
As stated above, 8 week old fetuses can feel pain and react to it in the EXACT same way that a newborn baby would react.
Please explain how a fetuses reaction to a needle prick would be different from a newborn baby's reaction to a needle prick if the fetus is 8 months along...
Then parents can leave their newborns to die?
A newborn baby recognizes the voice of its mother. It has already "taken the first steps" before it is born.
1- It's not just any old person, it's the child of the mother who is carrying it.
2- What if the mother didn't "volunteer" to feed her newborn baby? Imagine a woman who births a child alone in the woods. Only her actions can save the baby. If she leaves it alone, it dies. Even though the action is now voluntary that is required to keep the baby alive, how is that different? You offer no explanation.
