Those who defend "choice" ... if a moment after you were conceived your life was stopped in your mother's womb would you be here? Wouldn't your life be gone? Be over?
How can you say that it is not a human life that is being stopped by abortion at any point in pregnancy?
2006-11-02 16:39:14 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A fertilized egg will develop and grow and one day enter the world where it will be given a name.
Anyone can argue that it is not human until it breathes but, even they must admit by aborting the fetus it is prevented from being born.
A fetus has a heartbeat. Abortion stops that heartbeat. Think about it.
2006-11-02 17:06:33 · answer #1 · answered by mindbender - seeker of truth 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The fact that life begins at conception has a basis in scientific fact. It's not an arbitrary judgement. It is the only clear delineating point in which you can say that before that moment, it is certainly not a human being, and after that moment, it certainly is. Birth? No. What's the difference between a baby inside and outside of the womb? Only location. Development is gradual, so there is no single point that has a clear distinction before that point and after that point. At conception, however, two separate cells, each with half a genome, unite to form a new, single cell, with a unique set of genetic information. That cell will continue to grow and develop unless someting happens to it.
(I'm refraining from making comments about those who seemed to argue in their answers that although it was a baby, the mother still had the right to kill it, because that's not what this question was about.)
2006-11-02 18:08:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
According to a midwife six thousand years ago who had a situation with twins, it begins at the moment the threshold between the woman and the air is broken. In this situation the firstborn was to inherit from his father. A hand reached out, a scarlet thread was tied around the wrist, the hand went back in. The first child to come fully out of the womb was the one without the thread, yet the birth of the other child had already occurred. So, by extension birth starts at this point.
2006-11-02 17:31:23 · answer #3 · answered by paganrosemama 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is the question! Does life begin when the egg is fertilized? Or when the fertilized egg is implanted into the uterine wall, which is the definition of pregnancy? If a feritilized egg alone is a considered to be a life, then there are lots of babies that come into existence before their mother ever becomes technically pregnant, thanks to the miracle of science. Legally, it is not considered a life until the baby breathes its first breath. I defend choice not because of when I think life starts, but because it is a right that the government has given women and it is too late to take it away now. The ramifications of changing the laws now would be horrendous.
2006-11-02 17:16:24 · answer #4 · answered by RHB 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Life is a continuous process that began at the beginning of life. We merely pass it to the next generation having received it from the last generation. We can attempt to define moments in the progress of a growing organism- such as the moment of birth, or the formation of bones or the fusing of sperm and egg or the look of love in the eyes of a potential mother and father, but what do we really mean by any of that? Each day, each hour, each moment is another chance to live or die. There are no guarantees.
2006-11-02 16:52:16 · answer #5 · answered by anyone 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when the fetus can breath and survive on its own! Life begins at birth, hence the term "Birth Day"
Life had definitely began for the many medical professionals that are murdered by Pro Choice Dictators and their bombs.
"Choice" is defended not because everyone is Pro Abortion and recommending that every one have one, "Choice" means its a persons right to choose to do what they feel they have to do! Pro Life is just a nice way of saying "Pro Dictator", no one knows the situation a person is in, what they are feeling, whats happened in their pregnancy, whats going on in their life and mental state, so they have no right to tell a person they have to go full term with an unwanted pregnancy.
Banning Abortion will not decrease the numbers of termination, and in fact will only increase the number of back door operation which history shows resulted mostly in major complications and many women dying.
2006-11-02 16:50:29 · answer #6 · answered by Aussieblonde -bundy'd 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
From the time of fertilization a human being is created and begins a journey of life. Life is being stopped during any point of pregnancy whether it be two weeks or six months with an abortion. There is scientific proof that the unborn human has brain wave activity (which means that he is capable of thoughts), at very early stages of pregnancy. The unborn may not be seen but in short he definitely exists in his mother's protective womb and should not be disturbed in any other case than if the mother or unborn are at extreme risk of death or life altering deformaties.
2006-11-02 16:48:39 · answer #7 · answered by Mom_of_two 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Geeez even germs have life.
I don't recall any Pro-Choicer who says an embryo isn't life. The Egg and sperm that came together are life, yet we flush them from our systems all the time.
We stop human life all the time, starvation, murder, war, pollution enhanced disease, where is the outcry against these?
This to me it the strange part. Why is it that most of the Pro-Lifers want to stop abortion yet they cheer as the government cut taxes that fund school lunch programs, post natal care for the poor and after school programs? Why are so many Pro-Lifers pro death penalty?
If life is so sacred to the Pro-life crowd they should be out there trying to save it all, not just trying to legalize their "moral" stand
2006-11-02 17:14:41 · answer #8 · answered by Black Dragon 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
At any time after fertilisation (conception) a million things can go wrong. The zygote might not get to the uterus, it may not latch on to the endometrium, it may not ever divide between a few cells etc.
There is a continuum of development from fertilisation to birth but I don't see pro-lifers making sure that every zygote gets carried to term.
Where would you define as life having "started"?
2006-11-02 16:48:52 · answer #9 · answered by snoomoo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
life begins when it can sustain itself. until actual birth it is very much a parasite that requires the host body to remain alive.
however i think that the first trimester should be the limit for abortions.
but then again i am a man, and i am not a doctor. and i am not related to nor to i have any love interest in anyone on this site. therefore i have no right to impose my opinions on a woman whom has to deal with the pregnancy.
2006-11-02 16:56:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋