Abortion, right to life, woman's choice

I had an interesting discussion via twitter in response to the Doritos Ad

Just in case you couldn't see it, this is the description by Fox News:

Some viewers laughed, while others were a little put off by the “Ultrasound” ad, which showed a fictitious fetus kicking around  in the womb as its oblivious and expectant father munched on Doritos. But few took the advertisement as seriously as NARAL Pro-Choice America, which tweeted “#NotBuyingIt – that @Doritos ad using #antichoice tactic of humanizing fetuses & sexist tropes of dads as clueless & moms as uptight. #SB50.”

I got into a tweeter conversation with Anthony (@AJBulldis) which helped clarify my position on both abortion and its absolute opponents. See Below:

NARAL's position that a foetus is not human is clearly ridiculous. Those disagreeing need read no further since that is not a debatable point.

If a foetus is human, how can it be killed? Anthony calls it murder  I begged to differ and I do. Killing is often permissible in War, in self defense, to protect one's freedom and independence.

It is on the basis of freedom and independence that I condone the killing of a foetus who was produced by rape/incest, or who poses a mortal danger to the mother.

If a mother is forced to carry a child to term when it was conceived in rape or incest, it is involuntary servitude caused by actors beyond her control (rapist, family member). While the child may be innocent, it does develop until birth, so it has increasingly greater rights. By the time it is viable, it cannot and shouldn't be injured, since it can be safely extracted from the situation.

The argument for abortion does not hold because of psychological factors.  If we force a woman to carry to term, we are placing her in a situation where her anger and disgust can be overcome by her maternal instinct which will not prevent her from experiencing anger and disgust even if it may prevent her from giving the child up.  Twenty years of suffering under that situation, is to me more important that the termination of a pre-viable foetus.

The term viability is important since as soon as we can remove the offensive (not offending) item from the woman who is carrying it, we must.  If that period before it is safe to transfer the child out of her body is sufficiently short, the problem itself goes away with no human being harmed.

Of course, there will be harm even in the above case since a child rejected by his mother and having a rapist for a father does not have great prospects.

Tweeter exchange on a Doritos Chip