we are suppose to write a definition paper. i'm doing abortion and defining murder. so then i need to prove that an embrypo is a human being and therefore is murder. but i need to use some fact and cite things. what can i use?? help needed desperately!!!
2006-10-01 19:24:11 · 12 answers · asked by godfathermock 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
i attend a religious school, and so we cannot bring in religious reasons. has to be a logic.
2006-10-01 19:39:39 · update #1
this is a tough subject to debate. i personally think a fetus is not a human being until it can live without the placenta of the mother. you can't murder something that can't live (breath, digest, circulate blood) on it's own. that's why the law allows women the choice to abort, the fetus is a potential human being. so is a sperm. so is an egg. so is an embyro. but it doesn't reach human being status until it can live without a placenta (age of viability). once it reaches this point, it DOES get rights, and the mother cannot do anything to harm it's growth without being punished by the law (including being charged with murder if her actions cause the death of the fetus or baby).
2006-10-01 19:49:52 · answer #1 · answered by prettyhate 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I had to do a report on the same topic. I tried to look at it from both sides, pro-life and pro-choice. I tried to find sources that were pro-abortion if there was something wrong with the baby. I couldn't find any, they were all about pro-life, even if the baby had downs syndrome or other congential defects which would greatly affect the child and its family for the rest of its life. I did find a truly horrible website called www.imnotsorry.net which has testimonies about abortions. 90% of the ones I looked at were because the girl got pregnant too young and didn't want the baby. I didn't agree with this. I searched for a half an hour through the various stories ( i only had limited time ) and finally found one which was terminated due to a defect, although it was only a cleft pallate. It was called shulamit's story and the only one I used as a reference. You might be able to find others but you will have to look through the various stories. As for pro-life, there are hundreds and hundreds of examples which can be found via a simple search engine. Good Luck
2006-10-01 19:38:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cool, I did my high school term paper on Abortion. That was golly...25 years ago...and much has changed...but basically as a paramedic...I learned the the end of life was the end of brain waves and the heartbeat and respiration ending was "death" or lack of life...so the opposite is life. All (brain waves, heartbeat and respiration) are present at 7 weeks and that time...the woman is just finding out she is pregnant. So I believe she is killing a life. I am not really into the "its her body" I rather believe that she is caring for another person and has that honor and duty. Afterall, it was her actions that put it there. It didn't just form like a disease. Go to the Birthright webpage. They have a lot of information. Look at some developmental photos. I went to The Bodies the Exhibition in my town a few months ago. They had real human bodies and fetus' and embryos. It would be hard to look at those and say its just a clump of cells...because it wasn't...they had fingers and toes...and facial features...each unique. Each persons DNA is different. No two fingerprints are alike. That is special. With each embryo having those characteristics...how could one terminate it? Look into a saline abortion. It is a slow death....and noone can tell me that salt burning the flesh is not painful...the nerve endings on a baby are developed or developing at that stage. Good luck with your paper.
2006-10-01 19:36:20 · answer #3 · answered by rcpaden 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's a matter of opinion.
Actually, you usually get the facts and then decide what the truth is and base the definition on that.
You've already got your conclusion which you've reached without knowing the facts--probably from what you've been told by others with anti-abortion views that are based on precious little knowledge--and are just looking for anything that backs up your foregone conclusion.
I don't personally view abortion as murder, so I can't really help you with your paper.
2006-10-01 19:39:27 · answer #4 · answered by KIT J 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
only living things grow . A baby starts growing at the moment of conception therefore it is alive and it's not a puppy or kitten. what else would it be besides a human being.
Human life-- Any living entity that has DNA from the species homo sapien. This includes an ovum, sperm, Zygote, embryo, fetus, newborn.
2006-10-03 12:51:26 · answer #5 · answered by lynn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-18 08:21:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Murder refers to a BORN human being, therefore abortion is can not be considered murder since the one being aborted is not a BORN human beign.
2006-10-01 20:47:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Both of my sons' hearts were seen via an ultrasound, beating at 6 weeks gestation. My opinion is: if it has a beating heart, it's murder!
Hope this helps. :)
2006-10-02 04:34:16 · answer #8 · answered by brevejunkie 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i dont think this would help but why dont you just search it on the net....its a lot easy and youll sure have a lot of answers to choose from...Good Luck!!!!Ü
2006-10-01 19:33:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is all right here my friend--(you owe me! ---just kidding!) go here--http://www.cbhd.org/resources/stemcells/cheshire_2002-11-14.htm
2006-10-01 19:46:53 · answer #10 · answered by jakkibluu 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋