Why do people feel a fetus has the same rights as a person?

Question

And please I am legitimately curious here lets keep trolling posts to a minimum

ok why do people think a fetus is a person then.

ryel you are correct i dont believe a fetus is a person I find it very odd that we can define something as a person that hasn't ever taken a single breath. I'm 23 years old and still learning what it means to be a human being.

Answer 1

I feel fetus should be able to vote, buy cigarettes, and register for the draft.

Answer 2

Why do people feel that a fetus has less rights than a dog?

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Current US law is completely irrational.

It is based on the location of an organism, not on its biological development. If a woman has identical twins, it is legal to have one aborted after the other is already born, despite the fact that they were conceived at precisely the same moment.

The right of a human to live should be granted based on its date from conception. Whether that date is 0 seconds later, or 9 months is open for debate, but it is irrational to have the random chaos that we use to grant it today.

Answer 3

There is no Genetic difference between the fetus that you were and who you are now. From the moment your papa's sperm hit your moma's egg, it formed a unique DNA combination that was purely human and will never occur in any other person, and you still cary this exact identical DNA. It is not your mothers or your fathers, it's yours. Your unique fingerprint and specific brainwaves started hapening before your mother even knew she was pregnent. Fetus' respond to both pain and pleasure in the womb, as far as can be observerved by scientiscts. Basicly, PC Rhetoric and sensitivities aside, Doctors only call it tisue to not anger the mother, but really, they could aply the same tissue phrase to me or you, cause there is literally no difference. ok, so the organs and apperence are under development, but honestly, if you look at a severely disabled person, are you gonna deny their humanity? say someone like the so- called elephant man? They don't look like other humans, but they are in fact human. and thus, the rights issue.

Answer 4

I am convinced that a fetus is indeed a living human being with a soul,spirit and if we allow it to be...a body that is in developmental stages.

I believe that to end the life of one of these little ones,is the ultimate act of selfishness. I have been sorely tested on my professed belief,and passed.(long story). I myself was given up for adoption. I am at this moment spending time with an 11 year old girl who is absolutely beautiful in every way...she is loved by so many people...a very special person. I convinced her mother many years ago to avoid the abortion that she was considering.

ps For those who do not understand..The soul biblically defined is the sum total of the Mind,Will and Emotions...how could anyone believe that a human does not have a soul?

The Spirit is the inner person or spiritual heart

Answer 5

Heh, exactly my problem with anti-abortion people. Want to hear (read) my rationalizations for abortion? No? Too bad, I'm posting it here anyways! =D



Okay, ready?


There are reasons behind abortion. It’s not like people go in to the clinics cackling manically, so happy they get to kill a bundle of cells. There are things that you need to think about before writing abortion off as immoral.

Put yourself in her shoes:

Let's say you were raped. You are fourteen, and pregnant with a baby YOU DON'T WANT! This baby will be a reminder of the emotional pain you went through. Your life will be taken away from you because you now have to drop out to school to take care of the baby. And even if you put it up for adoption, people will still know that you are pregnant, and they will call you a wh0re, a s|ut, or many other names that are even worse.

But YOU wouldn’t have an abortion, even though one person has ruined your life, given you a baby you didn’t want, and caused emotional scarring so deep that you will never completely forget what happened? Wow, you must be strong.

Didn’t make you rethink your position on abortion? How about this one then?

You are a mother of three. You have a daughter who is three years old, a two-year-old son, a five-year-old son, and a husband that loves you very much. You are pregnant with another child. When you go to the doctor for a prenatal exam, he tells you that if you carry the baby to term, both you and the baby will die. That means that you will not have the baby and your family will not have you. Your three children that are growing up without their mother, and your husband will be wracked with grief.
But you won’t get an abortion, because killing is a sin?
Not to me. To me, letting yourself die and leaving behind your family while you could have easily stayed with them is the biggest sin I can think of.

Do you have any idea how small minded you are being by only thinking of the killing?

I knew those two people. They didn’t have abortions. They died. The mother carried her baby to term and they both died. The fourteen-year-old girl was my best friend. Her emotional pain and scarring was so great that she killed herself.

Answer 6

Mainly because of the idiotic notion of the existence of the 'soul'.

They postulate the 'soul' but never come forward with the evidence apart from hearsay and anecdotes which are not valid evidence.

The 'soul' doesn't exist, but if people admitted as much it would ruin their religious fantasies. So fetus's must be considered people even though they're not fully formed and not capable of independent life because they supposedly have a 'soul'.

It's nonsense. The "Soul" that people speak of is that feeling of duality which is an illusion that the mind creates due to the division between the conscious and subconscious mind which work together to make us self-aware which physically translates into the feeling that we are more than the sum of our parts. Yet that is an illusion.

Answer 7

A fetus has a human heart that pumps it's own blood, and has it's own blood type.
On the first day of conception it's sex can be determined.
It has also been determined that a fetus can feel pain at the legal age of abortion.

At what age should a person receive the right to live?

Answer 8

Once a child is conceived it has all the potential to be a full grown person in due time. It also has a soul, given by God. I noticed that someone who answered this question went on quite a bit about the expectant mother. All about her needs and pains but that does not diminish the fact that when a woman is pregnant there are now two people involved not just the mom.

Answer 9

Obviously the question is "When does some"one" become a person." Your question already suggests that you think a fetus is not a person. Some also think it depends more on the age of the fetus.

Answer 10

To me, conception = life; it don't get any simpler than that --
life is created (if scientists "create" it, they'll still have to
us Gods dust). Don't believe there's any further explanation
necessary. A fetus is a living human being, although some-
what distorted (deformed ?) in the beginning

Answer 11

A fetus having "the potential" to become a person, does not make it a person. If I have the potential to become president, that doesn't make me president. So a fetus does not have rights, as it is not a person until it is born. The mother has the right to do with it as she sees fit, as she is a person and is entitled to rights. Everyone seems to forget that part.