Do you think people should be slaughtered for manslaughter/murder if a pregnant mother loses her fetus in a car accident or accidentally causes injury, resulting in a premature termination of the pregnancy?
Well I'm not saying liberals directly support killing babies and name calling them as such, but it is a real consequence of what they do support. Can't say the same thing for the conservative view though, by not supporting abortions doesn't mean we are letting the rapists off the hook. We can still hunt them down and punish them.
If you are in favor of allowing society to kill it's innocents then how can you say you respect life to the same degree? Even if you deny science and believe a fetus is just a fetus, it is still a fundamental part of life and killing it sure isn't respecting life. Just my view.
Cells are living according to science. And these clump of cells that make up a fetus have a unique genetic code that says it is human. So yeah, I'm pretty sure that conception is when we can start calling it a human. Fetus is just the term we use to describe that phase of life, just like "baby," "child," and "adult."
The difference being that the people are military is trying to kill are not innocent. The people on death row are not innocent. An unborn human is innocent. And if we aren't living in a country with a moral code then I must have jumped to an alternate universe.
Science says a fetus is made up of cells. Science says cells are life. Therefore a fetus is life. Now if we are going to discuss if a fetus is a human life or just a life, a fetus has it's own unique genetic code and it states it is human. So scientifically speaking, a fetus is a human life.
Yes but a sperm cell's genetic code does not say it is human, it is missing half the chromosomes that would be necessary to be considered human.
For once I'm going to actually take Orayn's side here. Abortion is something someone chooses to do with their own body and they are obviously consenting to it. Rape on the other hand is something a rapist does with someone else's body without that person's consent. This isn't just an apples and oranges comparison, it's an apples and boulders comparison.
Nope, there is no such thing as 0.5 of a life, at least not in the universe I've been living in. If you leave an ejaculated sperm alone, it will die. If you leave a fetus alone, it will continue to grow (unless the mother chooses to kill it, the mother dies, or some other tragedy). And don't say that it's dependence on a host doesn't make it a life because last I checked science considers mutualistic, commensalistic, and parasitic organisms as life.
No, every human being is an autonomous clump of cells which is a sentient life form living on its own, not inside someone's body.
A tumor does not have a unique genetic code, it has the same genetic code as the organism of which it was derived except with some mistranscriptions.
