05-3-2007, 12:33 AM
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Very Grave Indeed
   
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Ontario, Canada
Age: 42
Posts: 10,120
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Re: Should the government stop abortions?
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like I said, though, that only points to a window, not a specific date for every child
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The "date" is three months, the window is, at most a week, maybe even two. The development of a human fetus follows a very predictable and observable pattern. You'll also note that we're looking at "three months, give or take at -most- two weeks" and my window for supporting abortion is "two months" You're two weeks away from the -widest- margin there.
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I say the simple answer is when it becomes a human: at conception.
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We simply have differing definitions of what consitutes a "human" then. I don't think a freshly laid egg is a chicken, any more than I think my sperm is thousands of humans. "Life" begins at conception, but we end the life of things -far- more advanced up the chain than a 2-week old zygote all the time, and think nothing at all of it.
I disagree with late-term abortion for every single reason you've quoted as why you oppose abortion, I just simply don't think it is valid logic to apply that same reasoning all the way back to the instant of conception.
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