can someone explain to me why the fetus in the womb is a person and not just cells?
2007-11-14 14:02:29 · 36 answers · asked by Jen 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
It's a little-known fact that many fetuses can play baseball and do advanced mathematical computations.
2007-11-14 14:04:54 · answer #1 · answered by Juniper McClintock 4 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Personally I think that until it is loved and wanted it isn't alive. Love is what turns the fetus into a person. Otherwise a fetus 'is' a bunch of cells.. for how can a bunch of cells thrive on anything but love. And personally I dont think a soul is even a part of a the whole scheme until the soul knows it is going to stay and this comes through a recognition of it being wanted.
2007-11-14 14:25:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
A fetus is a developing mammal after the embryonic stage and before birth. The plural is the womb or egg
In humans, the fetal stage of prenatal development begins about eight weeks after fertilization, when the major structures and organ systems have formed, until birth.
2007-11-14 14:07:24 · answer #3 · answered by indokid 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because cells are just cells. They perform a certain function, think of your skin, hair, bones. A fetus continuously develops, it is set up to be only a human, nothing else.
Think of it as a tiny tiny person - about to blossom.
2007-11-14 14:14:58 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I doubt you will get an objective answer here. This debate has been raging for over 30 years. A fetus can be prematurely delivered at 6 months now and survive, and preemies are getting younger and younger .... so to keep it simple, lets just say at conception is when a life begins.
2007-11-14 14:09:25 · answer #5 · answered by TexasTrev38 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Huummmm, skin cells are just cells they will never be anything else. A fetus is just a tiny baby about to grow up. A fetus eats, breathes, grows.
2007-11-14 14:05:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Well, I can explain to you the government's perspective on why it is considered a person.The government states that if it's viable (meaning can survive outside of the womb) then it is considered a person and therefore has the same rights as a member of our society. But before it is viable, it is not considered a person and therefore does not have all the same rights as a person would.
2007-11-14 14:09:46 · answer #7 · answered by frisbinator 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The question is why is it not? When does a fetus become a person?
2007-11-14 21:36:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My oldest son was born at 24 weeks gestation...still in the fetal stage of development. He was human then and he is human now, ten years later. He did not take a breath on his own for several months following birth. No longer needing mechanical ventilation did not make him a person, being the offspring of human parents made him a person.
2007-11-14 14:15:37 · answer #9 · answered by Candii JoJo is a groovy chick. 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
from the ultra sound you can hear the heart beat already!
Science tried to explain it, but the spiritual side fetus is a person.
God Made it that way! unexplainable huh? but you just have to believe it!
2007-11-14 14:08:34 · answer #10 · answered by Jazzpogitos 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
it all depends on who you are asking, a catholic priest, George Bush, or many scientists. Most christians are pro-life and believe that a person is created the instant of conception or when the sperm fertilizes the egg. Others believe that it is just a bunch of stem cells that have the potential to become a person. It is more a moral decision than a scientific one.
2007-11-14 14:12:55 · answer #11 · answered by Bigmac 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋