once a sperm goes into an egg do you see that as a living being???

Question

bear in mind: *its living
*if scientists found a millionth of bacteria from the moon they'd preserve it and say that its a living thing

i.e. the existence of a forming human being from inside the mothers womb at.

so in saying that abortion basically means that your actually from this fact killing a forming living defenceless human being.

Answer 1

This is why birth control is important. Life creation should not be taken lightly nor made a joke out of it. Keep your trousers on until you are ready to start a family. You play, you pay, period. If you use birth control, both male and female, this should not be an issue.

Answer 2

There is certainly a big difference between a sea urchin, and a human fetus! The moment the egg is fertilized by the sperm, life starts! Are they cells? Yes! Is it tissue? Yes! Then, the bigger it gets, and the more it grows, the more it follows the DNA Pattern, the more human it becomes!
By the time the brain, and heart are formed, and the organs are formed, it is a child! You can debate it all you want to, but whether you call it cells, or tissue, it has the potentiality of a human being! Whether you abort it or not!
Is abortion right or not! I don't know! But I prefer legal abortions, rather than leaving women to unliscensed butchers! And, I think a woman has the right to choose!

Answer 3

Well it's living. On that basis it is a "living being", just like your bacteria. You don't have any qualms about killing bacteria, do you?

You may say that a bacterium isn't human and as the feotus has human DNA it is both living and human.

So have the millions of sperm you've just killed. Now you can argue that sperm doesn't have the full complement of human DNA. But what about your appendix? Say it flared up. That is also living, and its got a full complement of human DNA. Does that make it a living human being deserving of protection, or would you rip it out in a heartbeat?

True, your appendix has the same DNA as you. Identical twins have the same DNA: you cannot kill one just because its the same DNA. Cancer cells have different DNA from you and you can kill them. The "human being deserving of life" boundary does not mirror differences in DNA.

Basically its a little more complicated than just saying "its living" or "its living and its human". To establish the right to life of a newly fertilised egg you have to come up with a little bit more. (Always assuming that was the point of the question!)

Answer 4

Science tells us that these are the necessary ingriedients for life...that when this happens a process takes place that creates a sustained lifeform dependant on the host (mother), in an end result being a human being. In a society so richly cultivated with the physical aspect of most everything the non-ability to hold ones baby helps console that it is not a baby or a life when it is as simple a choice as this : you either choose to continue the cycle of life or you choose to exterminate it...life is life, to the animals we accept as family or choose to eat, to the flowers we plant and to the grass we slaughter each week with the mower, to the spider we release to the forty ants we stepped on the way to do it. If the world was where it should be and people didn't hate,decieve, rape,molest and kill would it be such a profound epidemic.

Answer 5

Well, it is alive
And it is also an individual human being
So yes, I see it as a living being, because it....well, is.

The question is whether or not more powerful and independent living beings can control, use, or eliminate weak and dependent living beings. Well, people have been doing THAT since time began. Slavery, genocide, serfs and peasants are all examples of weaker beings who are used up for the convenience of the powerful. Is it right? I don't think so, but a lot of people would disagree with me.

Answer 6

Everything needed to create a human being is infused at the time of conception, so you've created a life at that point. Whether you give that life the opportunity to grow or not is another matter entirely.

To try and justify it as "oh, it's only life when it actually comes OUT of the womb" or "only when the baby can survive on its own" is ridiculous posturing.

Answer 7

I assume you mean alive as in it has a soul. No, I don't. I've seen eggs fertilized under a microscope (they were sea urchin cells), and it is what it is. The cell grows a wall and divides. How can something that has no sense of being alive, and cannot think, be considered fully human and 'alive'?

To answer the real question: 'When does life begin', I'd say when the baby can survive on its own outside the uterus. At that point, it is a living being that can survive without its mother.

Answer 8

Well you know the egg and the sperm are both living entities in their own right before the egg is under attack from the sperm. I wonder if the egg is saying hhhmm loverly or saying get off get off go away.

To answer your question--- actually I can't now I have thought about it.

Answer 9

It is a simple question that people like to complicate. Life exists every where. If you kill an ant you kill life. If you eat animals, you also kill living beings. What difference does it make if it's an embryo or a newborn infant? Life is life!

The only difference is that embryos and animals can't speak to fight for their rights, they can't become lawyers and argue inanities and they can't become sophisticated human beings who like to make life more complicated that it really is!

Answer 10

Yes, I believe that it is a living being.

At only 6 weeks pregnant, the heart begins to beat!

Answer 11

I understand the argument -- both sides of it. My personal perspective is that the fetus is not a "living being" until it is able to sustain life on its own outside of the womb. That would be at about 20 weeks.