Just wondering what your opinions are... From the day of conception, up until the last day of pregnancy... what is your honest opinion?...
2007-03-20 07:07:45 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
as soon as the semen and egg is fertilized
2007-03-20 07:10:53 · answer #1 · answered by Java Jive 3 · 6⤊ 4⤋
Cora is right, of course, except for one small detail -- that after the point of "viability", a state can highly regulate abortion -- that doesn't necessarily mean that a state will determine that to be "murder." Before "viability" a state generally cannot restrict the abortion procedure itself (although there can be other restrictions, like parental notification, a waiting period, etc.)
I disagree with Cora that medical science will "whoosh" away the legal basis for abortion. There may come a time when viability gets pushed back to the first or second month, but that just means that the standard will have to be revisited, not that abortion will no longer be constitutionally protected. Because regardless of viability, the decision to terminate a pregnancy is protected by substantive due process, and the COurt has repeated the substantive due process exists and is enforceable. Thus, unless the Court wants to overrule a BUNCH of cases (not just Roe and Casey), it will have to address where the privacy right ends and where the right of the state to regulate "life" begins.
My personal opinion -- a blastula (ball of cells) or embryo is nothing more than the "potential" for human life, and overriding privacy concerns mean that a woman who has something growing inside her has a right to decide whether to continue that pregnancy. When that embryo or fetus becomes "human" is a difficult question, but one that should be decided by a woman and her doctor, not by the state.
Of course, laws related to infanticide and the like, where the killing is of a living breathing baby, is a different story. And I hope for the day where abortion is simply not necessary except in emergency situations.
2007-03-20 07:35:35 · answer #2 · answered by Perdendosi 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When the embryo becomes a fetus that looks like a baby and could live outside the woman. For example, if the woman is 5 or 6 months pregnant and aborts then is murder. At this time, it already has a human body and its genital parts are visible and it can hear sounds outside the womb. It moves and possibly feels pain. If born it might live. It is not "embryo" that barely look like a pig or fish that depends on another person to live, it is already human.
2007-03-20 13:00:22 · answer #3 · answered by cynical 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When the fetus is capable of surviving independently of the mother, even if that requires artificial life support. That's the current legal and medical standard.
Exactly when that is depends upon medical technology, and becomes earlier and earlier in the pregancy every year.
Eventually, medical science will likely reach the point where the embryo can be transplanted into an artificial incubator within a few days of conception, and the legal authority to allow abortion will dissapear.
2007-03-20 07:10:20 · answer #4 · answered by coragryph 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Personally, I do not support 3rd trimester abortions...and they aren't done in most places. Partial birth abortion is just plain murder, in my opinion, and should not be legal (which they also aren't legal in most places) I don't have a problem with first trimester abortions, second trimester...I'm kinda of iffy about...wouldn't reccomend that to my patients. I don't think that abortion is a "good" thing, per se...and I would not choose that option for myself. However, I think the morning after pill or birth control are MUCH better options...it annoys me that even those measures piss people off.
2007-03-20 07:17:31 · answer #5 · answered by ♥austingirl♥ 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
basically one Christian's perspective, i'm specific others will deny or disagree: Our Father is arguably the international's greatest abortionist, because of the fact a majority of fertilized ova in no way implant on the uterine wall, and yet another super proportion that do implant are not carried to term. of those, maximum many times the female is in no way conscious she grow to be temporarily pregnant. homicide is the killing of a guy or woman. Embryos and fetuses are in basic terms skill people, no longer honestly/found out people. Ergo, no longer homicide.
2016-10-02 11:11:21 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suspect most on this page saying that once it is concieved or some trimester has happenedm, is saying that because of religous reasons (Christian). Well from the Bible's viepoint it is not a baby alive until it takes the breath of life. *taken from the Hebrew [Genesis 2:7 Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being, (*literally a soul having life).]
2007-03-20 12:43:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
When the fetus reaches the stage of viability outside the mother's womb.
Neonatology and medicine have advanced to the point where a 24 weeker is considered a viable, albeit a micro-preemie, baby.
If it can live independently of the mother then it's a viable baby and anything after that point would killing a human being.
2007-03-20 07:21:40 · answer #8 · answered by Susie D 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
From the day of conception. Abortution is probably the worst thing ever!!! It is just wrong in all honesty, no matter what! I know that if the mother's life is in danger, or the childs it might be "the best choice" but back in the old days they didn't have abortution they went through the struggles. I'll get a little religious now, I believe God will bless you for not killing a innocent baby.
2007-03-20 07:17:30 · answer #9 · answered by ladybug 3 · 4⤊ 3⤋
In my opinion first day of conception
2007-03-20 08:10:49 · answer #10 · answered by Spring loaded horsie 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
life begins at conception, you cannot add a living thing (sperm) to a living thing (egg) and get a non-living thing. Now it may not be viable, but life DOES begin at conception.
the law recognizes it at the beginning of the third trimester or 6months along.
2007-03-20 07:19:05 · answer #11 · answered by NolaDawn 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋