Abortion

And terminating a life... is a very serious thing
That depends on the life being terminated. I suspect you wouldn't have many qualms about terminating the life of a mosquito or a fly and perhaps even much larger animals, such as chickens and cows.
That's correct because they aren't human

Different stages of human development have different levels of intelligence. Most people are alright if human sperm and eggs die on a regular basis. It's only after the 2 are joined that people start to care much about the longevity of these "living human" beings. Others think that termination is fine so long as the the fertilized egg doesn't yet have a heartbeat. To this I say that humans are hardly the only living being to have a heartbeat and we kill many animals with fully developed hearts on a regular basis. As I've said before, I think the important thing should be level of intelligence, not whether conception has occurred or whether the fertilized egg has a heartbeat.
 
Again, the important thing is the quality of the life in question. As I've mentioned before, I doubt you'd have qualms about killing something like a mosquito.
You keep changing the goalposts. Now it's quality of life. Who should decide that a fetus has or might have a poor quality of life? Yes mosquitos are human and so no problem crushing them to death

I haven't changed the goalposts. I usually say level of intelligence instead of quality of life. That being said, there is something to be said about quality of life too. Producing a human fetus is a lot easier than raising a born child. If anyone should have the choice as to whether to terminate a fetus, it should be the pregnant female, and usually, that's indeed the person who chooses to do so. I personally don't think we should have yet more born children who die before the age of 15:

As to mosquitos, yes, I agree, they're not human. More importantly, though, their level of intelligence is far below that of a human- perhaps even below that of a human fetus, at least one that's a few months old. But there are larger animals that can rival and even surpass the intelligence of a human fetus:

 
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