Life in regards to its significance might be relative, but life in regards to its existence is absolute.

I believe I was pretty clear in my post that women who support freedom of choice are more than aware of the EXISTANCE of “life”, as you say, in early pregnancy. We are not idiots, we just disagree with you on the SIGNIFICANCE part of the equation. Though it’s more the potential of a person than a “stage of life”. A teenager will develop into a young woman without the assistance of anyone else’s body; a ball of DNA will not develop into a baby outside of a woman’s body.

In that sense, it is arguably NOT life, from the biological perspective. There is a great deal of debate in the scientific community about whether or not viruses are technically “alive”… they are made up of DNA or RNA, and they can grow and reproduce inside other organisms, but in the absence of a host they can do nothing. In a way, a ball of DNA with the potential to be a baby is the same. Remove the woman from the equation, and what we have is not “life”, but merely DNA. Depending upon your opinion, which is clearly subjective.

Again, I agree completely that the significance is relative. I do not believe a 4 week fetus is as significant as say, you. You disagree, as you are welcome to disagree. I feel each woman should get to choose what to do with a four week fetus based on her own personal opinion of the significance of it. Versus you, who want to impose your own opinion on everyone.

Slavery and segregation are IRRELEVANT to this argument. Saying two people of different races or origins are equal in rights, and should be considered so, and people who felt otherwise were wrong is NOTHING LIKE saying an undifferentiated ball of DNA that CANNOT SURVIVE OUTSIDE A WOMB is equivalent to a grown person. That is YOUR OPINION OR BELIEF that a ball of cells is as significant as a person. I BELIEVE differently.

“A fetus is as significant morally and legally as a grown person” is not an absolute, that is your opinion. You said yourself, the significance is relative.