{"id":171925,"date":"2017-09-15T16:11:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T20:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=171925"},"modified":"2017-09-15T18:21:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T22:21:35","slug":"ben-shapiro-sentience-not-good-measure-persons-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ben-shapiro-sentience-not-good-measure-persons-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shapiro destroys argument that a ‘fetus’ isn’t a human life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yesterday, conservative commentator Ben Shapiro spoke at the University of California Berkeley, with protesters and security gathered outside. Inside, an interesting interaction occurred between Shapiro and a pro-abortion student during the event’s Q&A, in which the student asked, “Why, exactly, do you think a first-trimester fetus has moral value?\u201d<\/p>\n

Shapiro answered<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A first-trimester fetus has moral value because whether you consider it a potential human life or a full-on human life, it has more value than just a cluster of cells. If left to its natural processes, it will grow into a baby. So the real question is, where do you draw the line? So, you\u2019re going to draw the line at the heartbeat \u2013 because it\u2019s very hard to draw the line at the heartbeat? There are people who are adults who are alive because of a pacemaker, they need some sort of outside force generating their heartbeat. Are you going to do it based on brain function? Okay, well, what about people who are in a coma? Should we just kill them?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n