why is it different just because the two havet joined yet? If abortion is murder than why isnt wearing a condom murder too? in both cases, the "baby" is at the same level of conciousness, they are both living things that are not human >yet<, they both cant "defend themselves" and in both cases you are terminating a potential life. so why is it so different?
2007-05-21 10:22:59 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
THE EGG AND SPERM ARE LIVING THINGS BEFORE THEY JOIN JUST AS MUCH AS THEY ARE AFTERWARDS
2007-05-21 10:29:13 · update #1
once they meet theres a child
2007-05-21 10:26:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
Scientifically speaking, human life does not begin until the egg is fertilized. So there's no such thing as a "potential life."
Either you are alive or you are dead. Nothing in between.
So condoms are only interacting with sperm and egg - neither are human beings. An egg is an egg and a sperm is a sperm. On their own they will never be anything else - but join them together and a human life comes into existence by the hand of God.
The real question is "when does the soul come into the human being?" Right at conception when life begins, or sometime later in the pregnancy?
Since we don't really know the answer (you can't find a soul under a microscope) the Church errs on the side of caution and condemns the murder of any human being, from conception on....
2007-05-21 10:28:58 · answer #2 · answered by Veritas 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When a women has her period she releases an unfertilized egg that is "flushed" out of her system. This is a natural thing, and since we only require one egg and one sperm, the rest "die" after some time.
Wearing a condom is no different really then when you don't wear one and do not get pregnant. Alone sperm or an egg can not produce life, but once they join THEN it can and that is when it should not be terminated as it will become a life if left to grow.
2007-05-21 10:28:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because before they join they have absolutely no potental to create life. Yes they are alive, and so are your fingernails.
The difference is that once they are joined they begin to become human. About 3 weeks into the process that little human has a beating heart and a nervious system that allow it to feel pain.
If you kill them:
One drys out and fluffs away, the other if aborted early does the same, after the nervious system is up and running though, it feels its body being torn apart.
That is the difference.
2007-05-21 10:36:43 · answer #4 · answered by littlesistermoony 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An embryo is the beginning stage of life. The embryo is a fertilized egg. The embryo will become a baby in a few months.
The unfertilized egg is just that. It won't become an embryo. It won't do anything.
2007-05-21 10:28:10 · answer #5 · answered by nymormon 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Egg and sperm cells are not individuals, they are not organisms. It is at fertilization that a new individual organism is created:
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Fertilization: Beginning a new organism
Fertilization is the process whereby two sex cells (gametes) fuse together to create a new individual with genetic potentials derived from both parents. Fertilization accomplishes two separate ends: sex (the combining of genes derived from the two parents) and reproduction (the creation of new organisms). Thus, the first function of fertilization is to transmit genes from parent to offspring, and the second is to initiate in the egg cytoplasm those reactions that permit development to proceed. -- Developmental Biology
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Search&db=books&doptcmdl=GenBookHL&term=fertilization+AND+dbio%5Bbook%5D+AND+131388%5Buid%5D&rid=dbio.chapter.1334
2007-05-21 10:39:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is actually a good question....I think that because if you leave sperm/unfertilized egg alone, it will not develop into a human. But if you leave a fertilized embryo alone, it will....just my opinion...don't blast me with phase cannons!
2007-05-21 10:28:26 · answer #7 · answered by hagia 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just a quick comment... Hadith a Qudsi has meanings from Allah (SWT) but in the words of the Prophet. You see, Quran is filled with the utmost wisdom (Alhamdulilah) but the explanations of some concepts are hard to understand directly from just reading the translation of the Arabic verses... hence HaditheQudsi sometimes helps us to understand the Quran better... however, the words of the Hadiths are from the Prophet (SAW) but wisdom/meaning is still from Allah (SWT) Only Allah knows best!
2016-05-19 01:31:44 · answer #8 · answered by daisey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before fertilization the sperms are racing to get to the egg first. Some die before they get to it. But when sperm meets egg, a real live baby starts developing.
2007-05-21 10:27:21 · answer #9 · answered by t_a_m_i_l 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I planted a flower seed the other day and just as it started to spout I ripped it out of the ground and stomped on it. Did I kill the flower?
2007-05-21 10:31:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A new life starts when a new DNA is created witch happens at conception.
2015-07-29 12:38:57 · answer #11 · answered by frank 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋