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Quote by: Electric Hermit Life is a process. not a discrete occurrence. It has no beginning and no end that we can truly comprehend. What is actually at issue here is the point at which, for the narrow purposes of human society, we elect to deem an individual's life to have begun. As this point is largely arbitrary, there is no right or wrong answer to the question, "When does life begin?" There is only the answer we can live with. |
To one who has a grasp of basic developmental biology there is most certainly a beginning...when sperm and egg join, both sperm and egg cease to exist...a new DNA fingerprint is formed, mitosis begins and a new life is started...the definition of life is quite clear...it is the property or quality that distinguishes living organisms from dead organisms and inanimate matter, manifested in functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli or adaptation to the environment originating from within the organism.
Quite clearly an unborn is alive....its DNA identifies it as a member of species homo sapiens...ergo it is a living human being.