Why woudn't a fetus be a person, a child?

Answer 1

Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;
Before you were born I sanctified you;

When you become pregnant there is life a inside of you that will be born and grow if you let it.Life begins at conception. It amazes me that people cannot see that terminating a pregnancy is terminating a life. I just don't get it. I could understand that, even before I became a Christian.

Answer 2

It is a baby as soon as it's conceived. Life begins at conception! That's why it GROWS. It is a life. If it didn’t, it would be equivalent to a rock. Do people ever announce, "Hey guess what, we're pregnant with a zygote!"? Even with unplanned pregnancies, the mother knows she's pregnant with a baby. Maybe some people want to call the baby “just a mass of cells” so they don't have to face the reality of what is really happening – killing a baby. But as someone earlier stated, no matter what you call it, it's still a baby.

BlueManticore wrote “IMO, so long as the fetus is still connected by the umbilical chord it is still just another part of the woman's body and she can do with it what she wants just like she can any other part of her body. Once the chord is cut, then the fetus becomes a person. “

So according to your logic, a woman could cut off her foot or rip her eye out if she wanted, since those are just other parts of her body. Obviously she would be considered mentally unstable if she did that. Yet why can she legally rip out a baby (or just "another part of her body" as you describe it), and people cheer her on?

Cheryl E wrote “Is an egg a chicken? Can it live as a chicken when you crack open the egg? No. Can a fetus live outside the womb? No. That is the definition of a person.”

Yes as a matter of fact, many "fetuses" (i.e., babies) can live outside the womb as early as 7 months. If a baby can be born at 7 months, you're calling him called a person, so what difference does it make if he's a person outside the womb or inside? Either way he still keeps growing.

Answer 3

It's amazing that people think a fetus is not a person until birth.
Abortion is used for the convenience of birth control.
A dried up seed is lifeless until placed into the right conditions, then it grows and becomes something more than it started out. It has a chance.
Life never ends. It is denied the chance s at life by someone else's decision.

Get A Grip.

Answer 4

Well I heard a pro-abortion doctor refer to a fetus as a tumor. She said this in all seriousness. Until it is born it has no rights.

If a fetus is capable of surviving if it is prematurely born, and at a stage when abortions are routinely carried out, then it has to be considered a person, a child. Why should it depend upon the whim of the mother as to whether it should have the chance of being a person?

Another thing: pregnant mothers are advised to refrain from alcohol and tobacco and drugs, if they want a healthy baby. That's crazy...why take so much trouble over a tumor, when you should just yank it out.

Modern society places so much importance on freedom, on free will, and freedom of choice. How about responsibility for ones actions?

Answer 5

Because it's still being built, or formed. As it gets closer to full-term, it becomes increasingly human in major structure, but I'm entirely in agreement with the Bible that before it's at least a month after birth, it isn't really sensible to count it as anything more than a *potential* person.

The essence of our humanity is not the shape of our bodies, or our knees or kidneys - it lies in the functioning of our developed brains.

And an undeveloped human brain has little to specify it as human - it's a work in progress.

In even earlier stages of gestation there's nothing that could even be called a brain at all. It doesn't think, or react, or even process data. It's building itself, in a storm of chemical signalling and the growth of dendrites toward target synapses. At such stages a foetus brain doesn't even resemble an animal - even a simple one. It's like a car with only half of its wiring installed, and what's there isn't connected up.

In later stages its possible to notice some reactions to stimuli, but these are essentially mechanical, or at best only partially functioning and not under conscious control. There is no consciousness.

Which is why I believe this current fashion for referring to and treating these half-built structures as if they were babies is extreme anthropomorphism, and is neither sensible nor helpful.

CD

Answer 6

I guess this is for those that think that a fetus is not a person. I know that it is. It wouldn't matter at what point it became a person since it would become one without any interruption.
I think the government is hypocritical in this area or Bobby Cutts would only be charged for one murder, but he is charged for double homicide for the child inside her. I wish the government would view abortion doctors and the women who obtain one the same as the men who kill pregnant mothers.

Answer 7

Is an egg a chicken? Can it live as a chicken when you crack open the egg? No. Can a fetus live outside the womb? No. That is the definition of a person. If you think a shapeless mass of cells is a person, then the eggs in your ovaries and the sperm in a man's testicles are also sacred, as they have as much potential to bring forth life as an unformed embryo. I don't see anyone having fits about women having their periods when they don't conceive and how it's a loss of "life." To what ridiculous lengths do you people want to take this? And how many of these unwanted babies that would be born if you outlawed abortion would you take and raise as your own? None, I'll wager, because once they are born they are no longer sacred. Cutting off funds for child health, Medicaid, etc to poor families is evidence of that. And it's the fundies who are at the head of the troop demanding these programs be cut.

Answer 8

If its not a person until it is born than why is Bobby Cutts Jr. of the missing women's case in Ohio Jessie Davis being charge for TWO counts of murder? One for the girlfriend and one for who else? The unborn child! Now dont think I'm supporting Mr. Cutts if he did it but why two counts if you say it not a being until it is born? Its something I've been thinking of and dont understand I'll probably ask a question on the issue on yahoo answers.

Answer 9

gelfling does not know his Bible. . .if he even owns one.

"The Lord called me before my birth. From within the womb he called me by my name...He said to me, `You are my servant'..." (Isaiah 49:1,3 TLB); "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb" (Psalm 139:13).

The question here is: Is it human? Is it a person?

If not then there is no problem with every woman in the world doing whatever they want with it.

And so brings us to the next question:
Can we tell at what time it becomes a person? Remember, we have to be basically 100% sure. Otherwise, it would be murder. Just like when I am hunting, I would never shoot unless I am 99.99% sure that it is not a person I am shooting at...in my experiance, through the trees and bushes it is possible for game to look human and a human to look like the game.

If you say you are sure then you are saying that you know better then those who are the top in their field (doctors, scientists, et al) who still disagree with one another on what time it is a person.

Answer 10

IMO, so long as the fetus is still connected by the umbilical chord it is still just another part of the woman's body and she can do with it what she wants just like she can any other part of her body. Once the chord is cut, then the fetus becomes a person.