Abortion is not murder.

As with any process that is incremental, it is not that easy to arbitrarily set a cut off point. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/08/babies-learn-recognize-words-womb

Caps lock = arrogant? OK, someone needs to consult a dictionary. An old one, printed on paper.
The women didn't perform the abortions on themselves, therefore they are not guilty of murder but of hiring someone to do the job.
Many women who had abortions were underage children at the time (forced to have the abortion by the molester-father). Who's culpable in that situation?

Caps lock is also used for emphasis.
"You don't get to take away right and freedoms from all people..." but you're okay with a baby's rights and freedoms being taken away before they leave the womb. I guess the baby isn't a person because it can't defend itself?

"So, the bottom-line reason for why a fetus isn't a person is that... it simply isn't."

I'm just gonna let that stew...

That portion of my comment is a bare assertion, yes. But it's at least the equivalent of anything you've presented.

While that's stewing would be a good time for you to collect arguments that amount to more than your own bare assertions of "fetus = baby = person."

Just curious--why are you, an admitted southern white boy, so concerned about abortion? Did you knock someone up and are now seeking approval to kill your spawn?

I disagree that I'm "so concerned about abortion." I frequently post memes about both sex and politics, and it is therefore natural that I'd do a meme on this topic eventually. It's the first abortion-focused meme I've created out of hundreds. It's not like I'm only posting about this topic all day every day.

Not sure what being "an admitted southern white boy" has to do with anything. All of us live in a society and get to have opinions. There are millions of people like you in America trying to take reproductive freedoms away from women, and I get to have a say about that even if I don't share female genitalia.

My wife's not pregnant, but if she were then we'd have the freedom to decide together whether to become parents.

Are you so certain your own mother didn't have an abortion before having you? My mom only revealed that to me a few years ago when I was in my mid-20s.

It might not be a good idea to air your Mom's dirty laundry on IMGFLIP.
How did your mother feel about the abortion after all these years?
Your Mom's abortion could have been you. Let that sink in.

If there's no shame in it, why did your mother wait until you were in your mid-20s to tell you about it? Didn't she want to "shout" her abortion?

More precisely: There should be no shame in it. But because of people like you, there is.

Translation: "There should be no shame in murdering babies in the womb. But, because of people like you reminding others of the shame of this heinous act, there is."

If you want to provide arguments that those other things aren't whatever else they are commonly thought to be and therefore aren't shameful, go ahead. But for my own proposition of "abortion isn't murder and isn't shameful": I've provided plenty.

It's not empty rhetoric anymore, and it's not persuasive to compare it to a bunch of irrelevant propositions that have no support or grounding here.

In fact the definition of "person" is not deemed absolute. The Fetus is a human being. A very immature one, but a human being nevertheless. Killing a human being is murder. Some of the criteria for defining a person according to some is not met by those in coma, those unconscious and some of those mentally ill. Relying on others to maintain life, for example. Consciousness and the ability to reason as another. When people have been lied to, and they have an abortion thinking it is just a blob of cells, I do not feel they should be held accountable. They have been told by countless authority that is was not a human being and not valued as worthy of preserving.. And, legally it is not murder at this time. So, only those doing the lying and those medical professionals who know better is guilty of actual murder in my eyes. The laws will change as people grow more aware. We have much better technology now than we used to. We can scan a fetus in 3D and see it's magnificent formation into a very tiny human being in mere weeks complete with a beating heart. Too bad the fetus can not talk. He would say, "A person is a person no matter how small". Abortion is also genocide of the poor and minorities who are more likely to abort. When there are countless methods to prevent unwanted pregnancies and there are countless numbers of loving homes available to adopt, to hold on to "My body, My Choice" appears very selfish!

Indeed: the fetus cannot talk, and even if it could, it would have no memories or opinions which it could express. It's just not a person. It's never lived a life.

There's a very easy answer to this. We all agree Mom is a person. Why don't we ask Mom what she thinks instead of speculating about the clump of cells gestating inside of her.

I believe they're all factors that are helpful to think about in reaching the conclusions that I do.

But you're right, let's stop circling. Bottom-line, for me, personhood is defined by one factor alone: Being born.

Why is being born critical? You get a birth-certificate and an SSN. You automatically become a citizen in jurisdictions like the U.S. with birthright citizenship. You get an officially-recognized name, even if your parents have decided one in advance. And you are finally well and truly free of the umbilical cord and outside your mother's womb.

However, I am sympathetic to the viewpoint that abortion should be banned after fetuses become viable. That is what I would consider to be the true gray area, and while I might not fully agree I do not lobby nearly as hard against laws regulating that subject.