Let’s say you damage an embryo before it became (what you’ll personally have to consider) “human”. The (now) “Human” has defective parts. Should you be held responsible for your actions? Could the creature have been aborted though? Would you still have to be punished?

 This is a great parallel-thing-ish you brought up. When it comes to “what we should value” I base all my “shoulds” off of one goal: “does it hinder eternal replication?”.

If meeting the goal of “replicating eternally” means putting chickens over fetuses, then that’s what will be done. If it means putting fetuses over cows, then that’s what will be done.

Personally, I have a solution I’m trying to install that really does away with the “abortion” controversy. Through technology we can limit human error.

But I digress. The issue really boils down to people’s value systems. And we can just make those up based on anything.