pro-choicers, at what point does a fetus become life?

Question

Just curious as to what the line in your mind is that determines when the thing is actually a life

Answer 1

The "pro-choicers" aren't into answering your Q, Alex... but they are into a full-fledged "Thumbs-down" assault on everyone who says something like 'life begins at conception" (it does).

So I'll give you THEIR answer...the one they don't have the cojones to write:

To a pure pro-choicer, life begins right after the woman has decided NOT to kill her baby. A couple answerers actually stuck their necks out and said as much... that as long as the baby is "connected to the mother" it's not viable until it "comes out kicking and screaming"!

So you can kill it until then?

These are the same liberals who scream bloody murder (literally) about accidental civilian casualties in a declared war, but who say that women can freely "choose" to kill their babies 1.3 million times per year and it's their "right", all the way up until natural birth!

Now BEFORE you libs start laying on the thumbs-downs, I'd challenge each and every one of you to have the cojones to answer this Q and defend your bloodbath of "choice".

One million, three hundred thousand dead babies per year. But it's OK... they're not real babies until we decide whether to kill them or not.

That's your position folks.

Answer 2

as a life long pro choice supporter i believe in choice for the reason that if the government has control over my body than it has way to much control
as a woman and a mother who did not chose to have an abortion when i was told by doctors that the baby i was carrying certain to be born with enough complications that the likely hood of his death was about 99% sure after giving birth to a baby with trisomy 18 he lived about 3 minutes we buried him 3 days after his birth if i had to make the choice again i would most defiantly terminate the pregnancy it was a terrible ordeal one that could have been avoided
i believe that life begins at birth there are to many things that can go wrong naturally during a pregnancy and if a fetus was delivered any sooner than 26 weeks there is very little chance of survival even at 30 and 32 weeks although better it's slim so for me birth brings life
i also think you should have little say so in this matter because your a man and this would not affect your medical well being or any other man for that matter it's a women's right and she should be able to decide better than the government what she can and should do with her body

Answer 3

I'm not pro-choice, but this is possibly the most complicated and important ethical question of our day, so I feel compelled to answer.

I propose that regarding abortion, it does not matter when a fetus becomes a human life, because it ALWAYS has the potentiality to become a human life, as soon as it is conceived, regardless of whether or not it actually is a unique human being at that same time.

And for the people who argue that abortion is only wrong after the fetus becomes viable, or capable of sustaining itself, I ask, what about all of the fully developed human beings that aren't capable of sustaining themselves - the elderly, the sick, the disabled - why don't we just get rid of all of them as well?

Oh, wait, I almost forgot about Terry Schiavo.

Answer 4

The poiint of the pro-choice position is that that question (when a fetus is to be considered a human being) is a matter of personal philosophy/religion--and the "pro-life" religious fanatics have no right to impose their beliefs on everyone else.

BTW--the notion that a fetus is human from the moment of conception is a modern invention. Until the 19th century Christian teaching was that it was at "quickening"--about 12 weeks. The modern distortion of traditional christianity is the invention of th e19th century version of todays right-wing religious extremists--but it is not and never was "Christian."

Answer 5

A fetus is alive...Are you talking about if there is "life" when the egg is in its chromosomal state (splitting?). I personally don't believe in abortion, however, I believe that everybody has the right as American citizens to make choices. Down the road, who is to say what repercussions will come of choices made. I don't think that people who get abortions are saying that the thing in their uterus is not alive- I think they are simply stating, and acting on, their desire to end the process. Does abortion make it better? Who knows, because that is open to interpretation. It could also be asked: How does it make it worse?

Answer 6

"Whether or not abortion should be legal turns on the answer to the question of whether and at what point a fetus is a person. This is a question that cannot be answered logically or empirically. The concept of personhood is neither logical nor empirical: It is essentially a religious, or quasi-religious idea, based on one's fundamental (and therefore unverifiable) assumptions about the nature of the world." Paul Campos, professor of law at the University of Colorado.

Answer 7

Well, in the book of Genesis, God breathed life into Eve's lungs.

"The Breath of Life" could be taken as the first breath outside of the womb.

I don't personally believe that, but there is a biblical basis.

Answer 8

When it becomes life? Did you sleep through high school biology? An embryo comes from a sperm and an egg - these are both cells, so they are both alive. Nobody is saying that a fetus isn't alive. We are saying that it isn't a human being, afforded basic human rights, until it exits the amniotic sack (ie, birth). Before that, it is a part of a woman's body.

Answer 9

There's no line. It's "life" all along.

That still doesn't mean that a twelve year old girl should have to bear a child whose very existence she regrets, nor does it mean that she should have to risk a hideous death by infection for choosing not to carry that child to term.

Keep abortion safe, legal, and rare. Prohibition just doesn't work; it makes bad problems worse.

Answer 10

At the moment of conception....however I'm still pro-choice.

Watch out for those thumbs going down.