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Quote by: Gorgo Why don't I have a right to destroy that life? |
Because you do not have a right to destroy human life.
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Quote by: bishop your analogy of killing someone in your basement is a stretch.. the zygote is a part of the woman's body. it belongs to her body. does she not have the right to choose whether/not this entity stays within her and grows until birth? the crux of the issue as i see it is whether/not the woman has the rights to control her own body. |
But the zygote is indeed an early form of a human being that is indeed alive. I think this is quibbling over details.
I do support emergency abortions and such, but this idea of "whoops time to kill it" does not sit well.
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how do you define life? i think that question supercedes the one you've asked in this thread. is life defined by a clump of cells, or by something that thinks, has a conscience, etc? the classic characterization of when life begins was at the quickening, when the fetus would kick around in the mother's womb. that sort of event is undeniably human.
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Life for me is defined by breathing, needing resources, etc.
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what about a zygote? even further, a sperm and an egg could also be termed alive, by the same notion as a clump of cells could.
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Right, I do not get too specific. I logically know that it is human life. By killing it I am denying it the right to life.
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i completely oppose late term abortions, but i support early term abortions. my definition of life (regarding this topic) must differ from yours.
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Yes, we do indeed have different opinions on the definition of life.