Isn't even the very first cells of a human life... a life nonetheless?

Question

It may grow one cell at a time, but how can anyone decide at what point during (first cell devision to head partially out of womb) that it is a human life worthy of the right to live?
And I am anti-death penalty as well as any killing of human life.
So don't go there please!

c'mon guys, you know I said HUMAN LIFE.
A cut off finger has no way of creating new human life. Don't be stupid!!!

Jack, must I repeat: I said: HUMAN LIFE!!!
Oh my, can't believe you TWISTERS.
No answers at all, so you twist it!!!

Awesome Bonsai! I, too was adopted. Thank God you and I were to spread the word here.

Very stupid the lot of you who do not recognize that I am ONLY talking about human life!!!! Really unintelligent of you!!!!!

Answer 1

Short answer: yes, it is. It may not LOOK like you and me, but that's simply because that's what a human being looks like at that stage of development.

Where are we when we start judging who's worthy of human rights based on what they look like?

Everyone bashing you was once a zygote. Point that out to them. And never mind all the thumbs down: you're right, right, right.

Answer 2

Now here's a can of worms =) You've asked the impossible question. Take into account; this is coming from someone who is also anti death penalty and personally pro life.

This topic itself is rather ambiguous. When discussing when a new life begins, people view from different stand points. In the end, people are always trying to decide on a STANDARD measurement of when life begins.

The most common justifications for the beginning of life I’ve heard:
-SPIRIT/SOUL: life begins when a 2nd soul is present within the mother. This of course is undetectable, usually resulting in a pro-life bias.
-CONSCIOUSNESS: life begins when the cells within the mother have their own consciousness; it has its OWN instinct to live. Again, undetectable.
-PHYSICAL SEPARATION: The whole thing with the ‘head out of the womb’ rules. (which I think is the silliest of these justifications)
-INDEPENDENT PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNS: such as heart beat, breathing, movement, etc. independent from the mother.
-ANATOMICAL FORMATION: how formed the new being is, like a certain physical stage of development signifies when life starts.
-THE LIFE CONSTANT: the theory that technically the CELLS that make the baby must be alive in order to form the baby in the first place, thus the baby has always been alive, just before the ‘life’ was within the cell.

In most all cases, people’s varying opinions fall into one of those categories, or some branch of one of those categories. In most cases, it’s really all about becoming INDEPENDENT in some way from the mother that determines the beginning of life.

In reality, it’s IMPOSSIBLE to determine at what point life truly begins and have everyone agree on it. But still, society takes it upon itself to attempt to decide upon one ‘standard moment’ when life begins to justify the morality (or immorality) of abortion.

Answer 3

The egg that you drop every month? Unless it's used, your body KILLS IT! How unholy of you! Isn't half of a wasted potential for human life still only half of a couple of cells needed for a human life?

MURDERER!

Death is an unescapable fact of existence on this planet, and has been for millions of years. EVERYTHING dies, and there's no way around it. In fact, a widespread belief system has developed for the sole purpose of easing a human's fragile ego by perpetuating the myth of a special place after dying, but ONLY for members.

I suppose you endorse the idea that not everyone goes to "heaven" then, right? So if everyone deserves to be born but not join you in the afterlife, what does that say about YOUR ego?

Answer 4

The being is not the flesh dwelling but the spirit. Life of the flesh is in the blood. You can have a perfectly functioning cadaver but no one is home

I guess you know exactly when God puts the spirit into the flesh.

Ecc 12:6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
Ecc 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

People focus on the flesh when it's the spirit that is a being.
The life of the flesh is in the blood.

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Answer 5

Well, there are human cells in the finger which are capable of reproducing, are they a separate life? If I cut my finger off deliberately, have I committed murder? I go with when the brain begins to function, that is the (usual) legal definition of death, might as well be birth, too.

A cut off finger is quite related to the matter at hand. At one point the cell is created by the mother, just like the cells in a finger are created by the person. It becomes an issue as to when it is a separate being, not that it is one. It is a POTENTIAL human being, much like an unfertilized egg or sperm cell. I would agree that abortion is wrong after the brain begins to function, but not before; regardless it should be the parent's decision, not the government.

Answer 6

Yes, it's alive, but so what? It isn't aware that it's alive, it doesn't care if it's killed. Those first cells are not a human. They are simply genetic material with the potential to grow into a human in certain circumstances.

Answer 7

The problem is not that we can't "know" when it is a human life, but that the anti-abortionist movement has kept us from even asking the question. In doing so, they've caused tens of thousands of abortions.

And I see from your outburst in response to the answers that you're not really interested in solving the problem - you just want to take the silly anti-abortionist line that it's a human life from conception. That dog don't hunt, honey. Face reality.

Calling people "stupid" doesn't help either, particularly as the problem is that you're the one missing the point. Think before you throw around insults.

Answer 8

Life is life as soon as it hits the womb. An unborn child has a heartbeat at 6 weeks inside the womb. If the beginning cell was not life, then it could not grow into what God put it there in the first place to become.

Answer 9

I am a Christian and while it would not be right for me to have an abortion , since I think it is wrong for me,I think there are gray areas in the whole anti abortion issue. I would never tell a rape victim or incest victim they had to carry a child to term to give it up for adoption or to keep. We have so many babies waiting for adoption and I have seen many teenagers growing up angry in children's homes. I do not however think it should be used as a birth control method.

Answer 10

It's alive but it's not "a life". An ant has a lot more than a few cells, do you constantly stare at the ground when you walk to avoid stepping on one?