2007-04-25 04:31:57 · 30 answers · asked by realchurchhistorian 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Some of you compare any old cluster of cells to a developing fetus. Is that really a fair comparision?
Is a person in a coma that cannot eat, breath, speak still a human being or just a cluster of cells?
2007-04-25 04:54:21 · update #1
Of course, it has it's very own DNA, everything was determined at conception. We were all fetus's at some point in our life, little beings with a heart beat.
2007-04-25 04:38:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
I believe in a womans right to have an abortion. The mass of cells inside growing would be of the same species as the mother so it is a homosapien. I don't believe any of us have souls, which I think is what your REALLY getting at. Soul or no soul we call our species Humans. I don't think any scientist would dispute that it is a human fetus. When you write "human being" you are obviously associating it with some sort spirituality but the word just defines our species. So your question needs to be better phrased, If I got pregnant the cells wouldn't be feline they would be human.
2007-04-25 06:50:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A baby conceived is a human- YES!! you do not say- I want a bunch of cells, that will eventually become a baby once born. Would you say a condor developing in the egg is not a condor until hatched? If that is true then there would be no fine for destroying a condor egg- God created the babies- granted they are developing but even when born, they are not fully developed yet- from the moment of conception until God takes that person home they/we are never anything but human.
2007-04-25 05:40:18 · answer #3 · answered by AdoreHim 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why did you ask this under the Religion & Spirituality category?
You knew going in that you would get a bunch of emotional religious zelots that would say it was a human being because "God" said so.
Why not ask this question in a science forum? You will get a much more objective answer.
BTW: Do we celebrate the day of your conception?
2007-04-25 04:49:21 · answer #4 · answered by hopeartaspirer 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, it's a living being that is human, (or becoming one, but it is never any species other than human) so I would have to say yes.
It may not be fully developed yet, but that doesn't mean it isn't a human being. It isn't a pig embryo that suddenly becomes human upon birth! It is 100% human originated and oriented from the get go.
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2007-04-25 04:39:21 · answer #5 · answered by danni_d21 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The fetus begins as a single cell and slowly becomes more and more human.
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2007-04-25 04:35:33 · answer #6 · answered by Weird Darryl 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
yes. The bible states that God knit us together in our mother's womb, he knows the number of our days and the number of hairs on our head. We are fearfully and wonderfully made.
When you consider the single fertilized cell of a newly conceived human life and from that one cell, within the womb of his/her mother, have develop all of the different kinds of organs, tissues, etc. and cause them to all work together at just the right time, it is amazing. And somehow to have the hole in the septum between the two ventricles in the heart of the newborn infant close up at just the right time to allow for the oxygenation of the blood from the lungs (not used in the womb) is also wondrous.The function of the digestive tract, the function of the liver and the other major organs, the longevity of the heart, the formation and function of nerves and of blood vessels, the function of the lymphatic system, the cleansing of the blood through the kidneys, the ability of the reproductive system to create cells that have only have the number of chromosomes and yet are able to mate up with another cell from the opposite gender and produce a cell of twice as many chromosomes, the complexity of the inner and middle ear, the sense of taste and smell, and so many other things I have no knowledge about. Each one is a marvel and beyond man’s ability to duplicate fully.
2007-04-25 04:39:44 · answer #7 · answered by northville 5 · 2⤊ 5⤋
by 5 weeks, all of its organs are there and most are functioning. By 25 weeks, the fetus 'practice' breathes. Its a human, by all standards, just not those that would like to make it something other than that.
2007-04-25 04:41:32 · answer #8 · answered by Mulereiner 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Wait (leave the baby in the womb) for a few months and you will get your answer.
Y
2007-04-25 06:38:05 · answer #9 · answered by robert p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES.
In this culture, only one factor makes a fetus no longer a human being: if it's unwanted.
2007-04-25 04:35:43 · answer #10 · answered by Suzanne: YPA 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋