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Originally posted by: Shimraa
In my opinion life begins once an organium can begin to preform all of its internal opertation independantly, that is if it were to be left alone and no one aided it life by getting food or would starve to death. that is why i consider a baby life and a fetus a fetus. if you were to leave a fetus alone it would not be able to function properly with out the aid of a mothers womb. to grow a fetus needs already digested food, to function a fetus needs a blood supply that is not its own. that is why i dont consider contraception the begining of life. the birth is, thats why we celebrate birthdays not contraception days, cus your birthday it is the anniversary of your life begining. your only commiting murder if you forcefully take a life of something that would have been able to survive by itself had you not acted upon it. thats jsut the way i see it.
Can a newborn baby survive on it's own if left on the street? While it is true the unborn child depends on the mother for food and blood, it is a completely different life, possessing from the moment of conception every organ it will ever need, and a completely distinct genetic code from the mother. It possesses a measureable heartbeat and brainwave pattern."Personhood is defined by membership in the human species, not a stage of development within that species" - Alcorn.
Celebrating birthdays is a tradition that goes back thousands of years, before any real knowledge of when a child is conceived was known. Your statement about celebrating birthdays instead of conception days is misleading. Taking this stance a bit further, and using your statement about an entity that cannot survive on its own, would a person just waking from a coma have a new birthday? I mean, they could not survive on their own previously, did they become more of a person now that they've woken up?