When does life begin?
Love Poetry
24-04-2004, 20:15
I thought this joke was funny. ~ Michael.
According to pro-lifers - just before an abortion (but not just before a miscarrage)
According to pro-lifers - just before an abortion (but not just before a miscarrage)
According to pro-choicers, just before the murder of a pregnant woman.
Actually, I am pro-choice.
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Soviet Haaregrad
24-04-2004, 20:34
According to pro-lifers - just before an abortion (but not just before a miscarrage)
:lol:
Love Poetry
24-04-2004, 20:38
Many pro-choicers want a woman to have the right to choose ... until after the baby is born. Then they have every right to interfere with whether she vaccinates her baby, what she feeds her baby, how she clothes her baby, where she houses her baby, and how she educates her baby. ~ Michael.
Soviet Haaregrad
24-04-2004, 20:38
According to pro-lifers - just before an abortion (but not just before a miscarrage)
According to pro-choicers, just before the murder of a pregnant woman.
Actually, I am pro-choice.
Umm... can you explain that? My brain hurts from it. :(
Groesser Deutsch Reich
24-04-2004, 20:39
When the child is born. Otherwise, it is inferior, and does not qualify as a human being.
Rehochipe
24-04-2004, 20:40
Life is not an either/or state.
Berkylvania
24-04-2004, 20:55
I second what Rehochipe said and have made that my e-mail signature. Don't worry, credit you.
It is yours, right?
Rehochipe
24-04-2004, 21:12
Unh hunh. (Aww. We're all flattered).
Pretty much nothing's an either/or state, to be fair. Admittedly, that statement's heavily informed by the Dao De Ching:
Is there a difference between yes and no?
Is there a difference between life and death?
Must I fear what others fear? What nonsense!
Life? It begins when it began, which was a very long time ago. Things have to develop into something that is recognizably alive before it can technically be classified as being alive or a life. A fetus is alive but doesn’t become a life until it’s able to function.
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it's called "the LIFE cycle" for a reason; life doesn't begin, it's a constant process. a sperm and egg are alive, a zygote is alive, a fetus is alive, a baby is alive, a mature human is alive. whether or not any or all of these organisms are human persons is another matter, and quite open to debate, but nobody with a basic understanding of biology would argue that any are not alive.
When the child is born. Otherwise, it is inferior, and does not qualify as a human being.
Good phylosophy. These damn anti-abortion christian lunatics should feel the same way.
Somewhere
24-04-2004, 21:50
I'm not even going to pretend I know the answer to this. I don't know enough about the human body to make a knowledgeable answer.
Caveymen
24-04-2004, 21:53
Well, the baby's body is alive before birth, but the brain does become developed until after birth.
Stephistan
24-04-2004, 21:53
Obviously the correct answer is at birth.. but I was tempted as a mother of two to choose #3..lol :P
Obviously the correct answer is at birth.. but I was tempted as a mother of two to choose #3..lol :P
Were you tempted as a geek standing in a line behind a big tits girl?
Stephistan
24-04-2004, 22:01
Obviously the correct answer is at birth.. but I was tempted as a mother of two to choose #3..lol :P
Were you tempted as a geek standing in a line behind a big tits girl?
Umm, I'm a women..lol I would have to say no..lol :roll:
Obviously the correct answer is at birth.. but I was tempted as a mother of two to choose #3..lol :P
Were you tempted as a geek standing in a line behind a big tits girl?
Umm, I'm a women..lol I would have to say no..lol :roll:
oh, damn. I need to find a new analogy.
Life begins when it is cared for. No sooner, No later.
Jim
Spurland
24-04-2004, 23:46
When people stop asking the same question over and over again..
Life begins when it is cared for. No sooner, No later.
Jim
erm, that seems a little harsh, given that a great many orphaned children would be considered non-humans well into their teens.
When people stop asking the same question over and over again..
soo...NEVER?!
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