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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
The question is "when" , not "whether". You sure you are trying to answer this?
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I know the question is when. The egg, the sperm, the fertilized egg, the embryo, the fetus are always alive unless there is a spontaneous in utero death or an induced abortion.
There is a simple concept in biology that was proven a long time ago, and that is there is no such thing as spontaneous generation of life. If a fetus is alive at any point in the process of gestation, it was alive at all points prior to that.
If you want to talk about whether the fetus has legal rights, that is a different argument than whether it is alive. Of course a fetus is alive and it has all the genetic material to make it a human organism. Under our current laws, though, an unborn child doesn't have the legal right to life if his or her mother decides he or she is unwanted. We can argue whether the unborn child should have those rights, but there is no question the unborn child is alive.
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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Thats cute. Are you referring to that part of the law that was created during and after 1973?
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I have read all the cases. They talk about substantive due process of the mother and whether the mother's rights to control her own body are outweighed by the state's interest in protecting unborn human life.
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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Oh my. You keep arguing that to the Supreme Court, and let me know where that gets the pro-lifers in 50 or 75 years.
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I don't think it is a winner of an argument, but that doesn't mean that drawing the line at the 3rd trimester wasn't arbitrary.
