I was only using an impossible hypothetical example to try to make a point. I ask again, if it were you, and you COULD respond, how would you?
The new born baby isn’t aware of the existential debate either, but I hope you’d at least say it’s wrong to kill the child once it’s born. But following your same logic, we should kill new born babies if we change our minds about having them too, because they also lack the cognitive development to form that opinion.
The clump of cells you refer to is also going to be an autonomous man or woman in the future. Is that potential person less valuable than the convenience for someone alive today who went and had an accident and just doesn’t want to deal with the consequences? Is that clump of cells worth more dead than alive in the future?
It’s not a matter of me being a man who physically can’t get pregnant. It’s a matter of me being a human being who has the right to live. Or do you think that’s not a right we should have?

if I were that clump of cells way back in the day, there’d be no cognizant “me” to have an opinion on my existence either way. Pretty sure any & all such clumps of cells also have no opinion on the validity of their nonexistence—-even you, I dare say, lacked those cognitive skills. Is there any way to get you to understand what it’s like to have your body serve as the battleground for these existential debates without your consent? If biological men could get pregnant somehow, would you still toe such a rigid line?

If you were that “clump of cells” inside your mother’s womb, your mother wanted an abortion for convenience, and let’s just say hypothetically that your mom could ask you, “Would you mind if I just abort you? I didn’t want to have you just yet anyway, it was more of an accident…”
I don’t know about you, but I would be like, “Heck no, you can’t abort me! It’s not my fault you went and had me. It’s not my fault you don’t want me, but there’s a great big world out there and now that I’m here, I want a chance to live!”
Obviously this is hypothetical. If my mom were to die upon giving birth, then I’d probably say to abort me. At THAT point I’d say the mom should have the right to choose.
The point is, it’s not the fault of the unborn that they physically cannot choose. But being adults in this world, WE should be mature and responsible enough to know the obvious answer if we were able to ask that child.
There are 3 situations I can think of for an abortion: convenience, rape, or when giving birth will kill the mother (I forgot what that one was called), and MOST of the time it’s the first, meaning the mother didn’t really have to end up in a situation where she’d be making that choice, but she is, and her preference would be to let her innocent child, who didn’t choose whether or not to exist and who won’t choose whether or not to keep existing, die.
And we have people defending this concept because there’s no accountability. The parents never meet the baby they killed, so they don’t really have to feel bad about killing it. Why don’t we discuss the rights of the unheard babies?
And I repeat my statement from before: The ONLY reason legalizing abortion is a good idea is because it puts these women in the hands of capable doctors rather than “some guy who can get the job done” or leaving them to try to abort themselves from home. At least it’s done “properly” and they’re not risking doing it in some dirty place in a dangerous way.

So to answer your question, the clump of cells isn’t more important than the autonomous woman, but the autonomous woman went and used her autonomy in a way she KNEW might give her that consequence. It’s time to step up to the plate, live with consequences of reality, and NOT kill the unborn child, who doesn’t have the blame for not being able to answer whether or not it would like to go on living regardless of its mother’s preference.

you consider a clump of cells a more valuable life form than an autonomous woman, Daniel?

I just wanted to share my opinion on this episode…. I was unable to finish it. If there is ANYTHING that justifies legalization of abortion, it’s the fact that if it’s legal, at least it gets done “right” and in a sanitary environment by someone who knows what he’s doing.
But I could not listen to all the talk about “violating women’s rights” when we’re discussing the life of a human being who is not given the right to choose whether he/she wants to live or not.
The last time we thought a certain group of “people” were sub-human, we were proven terribly wrong by the anti slavery movements. And if a sick person relies on a machine to stay alive, does that make him more human than a fetus who relies on its mother to stay alive before it’s born?
Almost all abortions are due to convenience, not even rape scenarios. In other words, people who couldn’t keep their clothes on. Call me old fashioned, but the best way to avoid unwanted pregnancies is undoubtedly abstention. There are definitely rights being violated here, but it’s not the women; it’s the unborn.