People who are pro-life, what constitutes life? Only point I will add is, if you say it is because of the potential for a life, then I would say the fact that every fertile woman in the world isn't pregnant every second that she can be letting a potential life be murdered, or aborted metaphorically.
2007-08-31 18:33:07 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
False premise.
The moment the egg is fertilized, a new life process begins. If left undeterred, the cells continue to multiply at an astonishing rate. The division of cells IS life. This cell reproduction occurs until the day we die. It isn't a religious issue. It is a human rights issue. To deny an innocent person their right to live is ghastly.
2007-08-31 18:40:24 · answer #1 · answered by Chi Guy 5 · 4⤊ 3⤋
An unfertilized egg has only the potential to be what it is for a short time. A fertilized egg has the potential to live a century and do things I will never be able to do (space travel comes to mind). I don't see how I can demand protection for my potential to live a few more years on one hand, and agree with you that the century that a fertilized egg has the potential to live is expendable.
As science advances, by the way, isn't it possible that one might continue living after all ones biological organs have been replaced with artificial ones? At that point one would no longer be biologically "human" but would still have a life worth protecting. So, yes potential is worth protecting; a fertilized egg has it, an unfertilized egg does not.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nonlethalalternatives
2007-08-31 18:45:10 · answer #2 · answered by Yaktivistdotcom 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If the Catholic church was in the same position as the non-catholic christians the debate would be over 'birth control'. I can remember when birth control was as controversial as abortion is now. Sex, according to the Catholic Church, is for procreation only. Using 'artificial' birth control is, according to the Church, a 'sin'. I recall when a catholic woman who didn't conceive soon after marriage stood a good chance of being confronted by her priest and asked point-blank if she was using birth control. If the answer was yes she was barred from communion. Because she was not allowing a sperm to reach her egg she was commiting a form of murder.....spooky, but true!
2007-08-31 18:47:37 · answer #3 · answered by Noah H 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Pro-life people do not want to control your body, we want to protect Innocent unborn life. You can choose to use birth control, abstinence or sterilization, but once a life is created we feel the child has Constitutional rights just the same as you do.
Let me turn the tables when do you feel a woman should not be allowed to destroy her child? first trimester? second, third?
If a woman should be allowed to end her pregnancy one day before she delivers why not one day after she delivers? one year after?, 10 years?
2007-08-31 18:49:12 · answer #4 · answered by Nancy P 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The only genetic difference between you and you at 5 weeks in utero, is time.
If you know anything about science- which you obviously don't- is that DNA doesn't change. According to WHO (World Health Organization) "DNA is the basis for all life".
2007-08-31 18:40:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The problem with phrasing the question that way is that it assumes that everyone is going to arrive at the same conclusion about what constitutes "life", and what constitutes "human life", and what constitutes "an independent human being".
The pro-life crowd is usually more anti-choice than they are pro-life -- their goal is often to have the govt be allowed to make the decisions for everyone, rather than accepting that different people and different religions can come to different answers.
That's why the pro-choice movement really has nothing to do with the issue being argued by the pro-life groups. As far as pro-choice is concerned, the issue is WHO gets to make the determination -- not WHAT that decision is.
2007-08-31 18:40:02 · answer #6 · answered by coragryph 7 · 3⤊ 4⤋
At the point of conception it is not potential life , it IS life.
2007-08-31 18:41:55 · answer #7 · answered by jim h 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Before sex is a potential life, after sex, IS a life.
http://jfaweb.org/i1p3.pdf
2007-08-31 18:55:57 · answer #8 · answered by Jeremiah Johnson 7 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm pro-choice, but I have NO IDEA what you just said.
2007-08-31 18:43:36 · answer #9 · answered by Bush Invented the Google 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋