I've heard this argued by a local religious group that opposes abortion.
If zygotes were just tiny babies, why were they given the special designation of "zygote"? Were scientists trying to push a pro-choice agenda? In fact, are scientists just pulling one big conspiracy theory against the religious? You know, with evolution and all?
(Happily and sarcastically rampaging.)
2007-06-24 03:00:24 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Neha: Thank you for not so skillfully avoiding the actual question.
2007-06-24 03:44:20 · update #1
Scarface . . . must I beat you over the head with the sarcasm?
2007-06-24 03:45:06 · update #2
"It is not unfeasible that advances in medical science will one day give us the definitive "scientific" answer to the question of when a foetus equals an existing human life. Already a premature birth can be kept alive without debilitating health issues from around 22 weeks. It will raise a lot of prickly questions once medical science can sustain life outside the womb from 18, 15, 10 weeks or less. I await your sarcastic comments on that issue."
I have no sarcastic comment for that. All I can say is that this is why I believe that if a woman has an abortion, she should do so the moment she finds out about the pregnancy. That usually happens before the first 8 weeks.
2007-06-24 13:24:59 · update #3
Sorry =42, but your tone, to me, wasn't sarcastic. It was assumptive. It sounded like you were assuming I wouldn't have a response for that . . . as if I'd never intellectually considered that before. Sorry to disappoint.
2007-06-24 13:25:57 · update #4
I actually heard two zygotes discussing meiosis one time. It really freaked me out.
They were speaking fondly of the permutations, and agreeing with each other other how the meiotic division of cell nuclei is so much better than regular cell division, and on and on.
I never mentioned that to anybody until now. It still freaks me out every time I think about it.
2007-06-24 03:05:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
It is not unfeasible that advances in medical science will one day give us the definitive "scientific" answer to the question of when a foetus equals an existing human life. Already a premature birth can be kept alive without debilitating health issues from around 22 weeks. It will raise a lot of prickly questions once medical science can sustain life outside the womb from 18, 15, 10 weeks or less. I await your sarcastic comments on that issue.
2007-06-24 03:15:45 · answer #2 · answered by =42 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
+2
2016-04-01 02:01:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's kind of funny to me the terms that people use to support the idea of early-term abortions. "Oh, it's just a clump of cells / a fetus / a zygote." Even when I was not a Christian, which is most of my life by the way, I was against abortion.
My opinion is based on the simple fact that by the time a woman knows she is pregnant, the baby already has a heartbeat. That IS scientific. One can call an unborn baby whatever they want, it doesn't change that fact.
And calling something a "zygote" or a "fetus" doesn't change what it is: A LIFE. One plus one still equals two, even if a person tries to insist it equals three. A tree is still a tree, even if someone tries to say it's a blade of grass. Doesn't change the facts at all.
2007-06-24 03:10:01 · answer #4 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No DNA difference. The only real differences between a zygote and yourself are time,nutrition and luck. Different stages for the same human reality nad person.
2007-06-24 03:13:06 · answer #5 · answered by James O 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
i'm pro-choice but only because i feel that people should not impose their views on everyone, if you want an abortion, go ahead, if you don't then don't, but idk where i stand personally on the issue, because i feel as if i wouldn't interfere with the development of the fetus, then it would be another normal person when born, but by getting an abortion, i'm taking away the life out of practicality for myself, unless the pregnancy was due to something extreme like rape or something, i personally would not choose to abort, but i don't look down on others for choosing to abort, it's a matetr of your own beliefs
2007-06-24 03:10:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's just a scientific name. A woman is pregnant at the moment of conception, until she has her baby!
2007-06-24 03:15:53 · answer #7 · answered by SDC 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
don't be an idiot, it's only because of science that you have a computer and can sit on your backside and write this garbage.
science> religion
religion has brought us nothing but misery and suffering over the last 2000 years.
2007-06-24 03:07:05 · answer #8 · answered by Scarface 1 · 2⤊ 3⤋
so...... if zygot's aren't babies why are women considered pregnant from the moment they know they have concieved?
2007-06-24 03:08:42 · answer #9 · answered by Marysia 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
semantics makes for specious sophistry even if sarcastic.
2007-06-24 03:03:58 · answer #10 · answered by Fake Sham 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋