When do you think Human life begins?

Question

Explain your answer.

I noticed something interesting. Everyone who thinks that life begins at conception gave an explaination, while everyone who think otherwise didn't....... hmm...... this must tell you something.

annathespian: If something that cannot support itself is not alive, does this someone on a breathing machine is not living? Even though they have a beating heart, breathing lungs, and moving blood?

Answer 1

I believe human life begins the moment the sperm fertilizes the egg. Scientific sudies have even proven that in a matter of days, the heart starts beating.

Answer 2

A human life is one of self direction and responsibility, so for some people human life never begins. Of course, some aspects of this criteria comes in stages. For instance, for a fetus, the ability of it's system to survive outside of the womb is how much life it has that distinguishes it from, say, a tumor. There are clear scientific criteria for this, and abortion laws should be constrained by them. This would allow early stage abortion, but not late.

Answer 3

Depends on what you call human but probably it began hundreds of thousands of years ago and has continuted ever since. A fertilized egg is not a beginning of human life any more than a new skin cell is a beginning of human life. It is just part of an evolutionary process that has continued for over three billion years.

Answer 4

At conception... because all that is human comes togeather at that instant. All that that individual will be is determined at that instant. That life is compleat and unique and seperate from even the mother. Yes, it is dependent for a time, to receive nurishment from the mother... But it will remain dependent even after it leaves the mothers body.. Why is the dependence of the womb any different than the dependence of the crib?... It is a human being like no other. It is life... not a choise...

Answer 5

Human life begins when an egg and a sperm are joined. This is obvious to anyone with a basic knowledge of biology. Sure the union requires the support system of the mother in order to grow and develop but so does a baby that has come out of the womb. No new genetic material enters into that human life, only nutrients to sustain it.

Answer 6

Life begins at conception. That is the point when the human being is formed. It then grows in the mother until it is capable of life outside of the womb. Some people believe that human life begins when the child is born and others not until the child is two. Life begins when it begins and ends when it ends by natural or artificial means.

Answer 7

Right around 35 weeks. A human fetus can't survive outside the womb before then... I feel that if an organisim can't support it's own life essential functions then it isn't truly alive... Can you guess where I stand on end of life rights?

Answer 8

Conception.

Answer 9

human life begun with the creation of adam & eve. and another human life begins upon fertilization of the egg with sperm cell. the sperm & the egg has a life of its own so when they unite, a human is in the making. its a continuing process of the transfer of life so i can not say it begins on the first heartbeat or when they are born.

Answer 10

When you become a person. You become a person when you become self-aware and the first act of self-awareness is when you are slapped on the butt and start sucking air on your own. The conception crap is a religious position and I will not allow religion to rule my life, ever.