Strongly pro-choice person here.

This isn't a good argument, because it extends badly and would lead to abortion restrictions.

By 16 weeks the fetus is often moving around. You really aren't going to convince anyone that a moving creature isn't "alive". If someone wants a pregnancy, and gets to the point where the fetus is moving, and then the fetus does not make it to birth, that woman and everyone else around her will say the baby died. And they're right. And if you tried to say, "It was never alive," you would get a poor response, even if the family were very pro-abortion.

So pushing "Abortions are OK because a fetus isn't alive at any time before birth" is not just unreasonable, it would lead to a definition of "life", probably around 10 weeks, and a hard ban on abortions after that.

The issue is the word "life". It sort of baffles me that all of these people who chow down on meat for every meal and love warfare and the death penalty also pretend that life is sacred to them.

Life is important - maybe even sacred - but we always need to kill living creatures every single day just to survive. Even though I have a plant-based diet, everything I eat was once alive.

Before a certain point, a fetus does not feel pain or anything of the sort. Taking it from life to death is not a sin or a crime. If you're willing to kill a pig, an intelligent, friendly and loyal creature when not tortured, then this should be nothing to you.

My father, also strongly pro-choice, summed it up really well: "Every abortion is a tragedy, but often one that prevents a much bigger tragedy."