A question for those strongly opposed to abortion?

Question

If you are very strongly opposed to abortion, and think its murder, think about this. Every time a male ejaculates there are 100 million sperm, that will all die, except for one, thats one hundred million cells, that can produce a human life, and every month a female goes with out getting pregnant she loses an egg, another chance at a human life. So my real question is, will you put out 100 million crosses, every time you ejaculate?

I am actually pro-LIFE. i believe that abortion is wrong in most cases, and i am strongly against violence, the death penalty, I am just trying to point out some of the flawed logic that goes into saying human embryos are equal to humans.

and i wasn't trying to say those things were human, i was trying to say they were a chance at a human, that never got to become human, which is pretty much the logic behind anti-abortion, and for some of you people who said i needed to check my biology, i'm actually majoring in it at ohio state. so.....

Answer 1

OK I'm an atheist, and I'm not wild about abortion. The problem with with your argument is that unfertilized eggs and sperm will never be anything else, by themselves. Once the two are put together and given everything it need to survive, you have a baby.

I would rather work on prevention of unwanted pregnancies, than abortion. I'm not about to stop someone from having one, but I'd never have one myself.

Answer 2

Well, yeah, and any time a woman gets pregnant, there goes the possibility of any of the other billions of men in the world getting her pregnant for the next 9 months. Wow. The odds of any of us ever being born at all are pretty darn small. Can I answer even though I'm only mostly opposed to abortion? (I think if a woman didn't have a proper opportunity to exercise her right to choice before conception, or the pregnancy puts her in danger, it's wrong to force her to have a baby.)

I guess my answer is.. before you put the complete set of genes together by combining a sperm and an egg, there's no person. There's just a combination that could theoretically have occurred but didn't. Sperm and eggs are part of the parents. The eggs in my ovaries are my cells, and losing one every month is no more of a tragedy than losing all those blood cells that go with it. But once one gets fertilized, it's somebody else. Yeah, it's a very early stage of that somebody, but they're all there in one place and they're alive. I would argue that that life is more important than whether the mother might be inconvenienced or whether her family would be upset. I feel that when you intentionally have sex that you realize could result in pregnancy, you owe 9 months' room and board to anybody you happen to conceive.

Answer 3

You went about this all wrong. One of the reasons pro-lifers are so against abortion is b/c insemination itself is such a miracle. No sperm alone is a life and neither is any ovary. Too fertile people can try and try but it really is a one in a million chance. Once you have conception, pro-lifers argue you have life. Sperm and ovaries on their own are not enough. Besides a 100 million crosses every time you ejaculate?! Where is a healthy american boy gonna get 87 trillion crosses every week ; ). Hope this answer provides you with some perspective. There are better debates to this issue than the one you have chosen. much love.

Answer 4

The sperm and the ovum never have an opportunity to become anything more than they already are unless conception occurs.

When sperm is allowed to die, it does not kill anything that will ever become a life of its own. Sperm alone only has a short "life" and it does not meet the definition of an organism.

After conception, however, there is life. An organism is formed. This organism can be allowed to live, and grow, or it can be killed.

Unborn babies grow, have independent movement, they take in nourishment, expel waste, they respond to stimulant. These are all definitions of an living organism. This organism is human.

Unborn humans have been shown to be able to feel pain, to play, to recognize sounds (voices), and to demonstrate other characteristics.

It is murder to kill innocent humans. None are more innocent than the unborn.

Murder is the taking of life.

If it is not murder to kill a child before it is born, then why is it murder to kill one after birth? A newborn is not capable to survive on its own.

If it is wrong to abort a baby after it is born, then it is just as wrong to abort it before, or during birth.

God hates hands that shed innocent blood! (Proverbs 6:16-17)

Answer 5

When I was a young child, I learned that when a sperm cell and an egg cell merge, it becomes LIFE. Alone it is not life, it is just a cell. Therefore why would I need to put out 100 million crosses? It is not about the chance at life, IT IS LIFE. If you leave a sperm cell alone to do it's job, and it does not merge with the cell, it will not become life. The same for the egg. Therefore there was never a chance at life. If you take the two merged and leave them alone to do their job, you are becoming a parent. Combined cells are not "a chance at life" they are life. The very essence of what creates it.

Sorry that you feel the need to justify ending life. But your argument of sperm and an egg alone dieing being the same as them combined is ridiculous. If you want to lead a person to your point of view, try a new technique.

~My Opinion, just as you are welcome to yours.

Answer 6

sperm = cell that can produce under some special conditions a life, if it comes in contact with an egg.
an early stage fetus is something that will produce a life (if everything turns out correctly), it is completely different than sperm or egg separate.

I'm not really sure where i stand on abortion, personally i think its an incredibly awful thing that should be avoided at all cost, still sometimes on some particular occasions it seems the most rational thing to do, (also people not opposed to abortion usually have great arguments to back them up).

Paz de Cristo

Answer 7

While you are correct about each one carrying the possibility for life, that is not the issue with abortion. It's not abortion until the sperm has fertilized the egg, and conception has happened. I think your trying too hard to justify this in your mind. Life begins at conception. Have you thanked your mother recently for not deciding you'd be more of a burden to have than to not? Are you wishing you would have been one of those 100 million cells that didn't fertilize an egg? Thankfully for you, and those that could not imagine life without you, your mother decided to let you live, and whoever your father is had at least one good swimmer in the bunch.

Answer 8

How could you possibly make this ill-conceived claim? Sperm, and cells in general, function autonomously, meaning they exist based on a set of instructions comprised of chemical concoctions and have one function (sperm). They are not self-aware, and while humans and most animals as a whole are made up of these autonomous cells, they have certain cells that allow self-awareness, consciousness, emotion, decision-making, etc... cells by themselves do not have these properties. So when you ejaculate, you're pretty much spewing protein and DNA.

As soon as fetuses develop brains, they have some form of self-awareness, therefore aborting them is in essence, killing them and shutting down consciousness.

Keep in mind, the fact that we ejaculate several million sperm each orgasm is a natural occurence, and evolution has designed our reproductive and immune systems to act this way. The female body fights off sperm because they are foreign bodies, and the male body knows most sperm will die in the journey fertilizing the eggs, so million are produced.

Abortion, right or wrong, is not a natural occurence, and the concept is a product of self-awareness, consciousness, etc... not natural autonomy.

The only sperm that are self aware are mine, because I'm amazing.

Answer 9

Isn't that the natural course of how the human reproductive system is designed to work?
Every day thousands of cells in my body die and are replaced. The individual lives. Sperm and eggs are incomplete DNA carriers and are by themselve, incapable of continuing on. They have half of the DNA molecule needed to survive, half needed to produce a fully formed human being.
Gametocytes are truly just tissue of the singular parent. Once an egg and sperm unite they form a unique DNA and being that is neither parent, a different person in formation.
Your weak point is pretty ludicrous and does not properly demonstrate the possibility of your intellect. I think you could make a less childish, less shock-jock style argument.

Answer 10

Those sperm and eggs are not a (potential) living child, and if left alone, they will not become one. Obviously, when a fetus is left alone, it WILL become a baby. This is not about possible children, it is about obvious children. I believe that a woman should be able to abort only if she would sustain life threatening injuries or death by giving birth. -Fetuses are living things and this would be an act of self-defense, just like with any other human.