Pro-Choicers: When does life begin?
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A fertilized egg will develop and grow and one day enter the world where it will be given a name. \n\nAnyone can argue that it is not human until it breathes but, even they must admit by aborting the fetus it is prevented from being born. \n\nA fetus has a heartbeat. Abortion stops that heartbeat. Think about it.
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I also am pro-life (anti-abortion is a better term) for many reasons:\n1. the heart beats on the 22nd day (heartbeat signifies life!)\n2. embryo is growing from day one (also signifies life)\n3. i suffered 9 years of infertility\n4. adoption waiting list for a U.S. child is TEN years!\n5. a baby is the ultimate gift\n6. so many people want children and can't have them...give the child up for adoption\n7. no child is unwanted!  someone out there will take the child if you don't want it\n8. no child asked for the mother to be irresponsible by getting pregnant with a baby she didn't want so why should the baby be punished (murdered) for her mistake, carelessness or stupidity\n9. I would not have my oldest son if his birth mother believed in abortion\n\nWhile I would never deny anyone their right to abortion, they also have no right to deny me my right to believe that abortion is cold blooded, calculated murder (except in very specific situations).
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You are clearly not looking for answers. You are simply trying to troll the message board trying to find support for your own viewpoint. Look at your question. It is not a question. It is an opinion. what makes you think your opinion is more valuable than somebody else's?\n\nIf you stick with science, then no a fertilized egg is not a human being. After 8 weeks the fertilized egg has grown into a fetus and at that point it has all the required organs. So your religion tells you its a baby and you make a law barring everyone else from having the freedom. What if someone from a different religion believes it is ok to have abortion? Won't you be imposing your religious beliefs on that person?\n\nAnd if you want to talk of life, why does life begin at conception? The individual cells, sperm and oum, are already alive. every cell in your body is alive. So how do you deal with that fact? If you use contraceptives you are killing those cells. Isn't that murder?
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Abortion is murder, you are killing a life (the fetus IS alive at the MOMENT of conception). Abortion is the must DISGUSTING thing ever.\n\n1) why should we punish the child, it was NOT the child's fault it was born\n2) With sex comes responsibilities, and if you're going to engage, you BETTER be willing to pay (whether it means adoption, giving up your life for theirs, what ever the consequence is- you better be ready.)\n3) From the moment of conception it has its own DNA coding, therefore it's tech. not the "women's body", the only thing the women is doing is housing and feeding it.\n4) The two participating had the choice whether or not they were ready to deal with the consequences so why give them more choices if they're already making bad ones?\n5) rape, I sympathise greatly, but why punish the child? it's not the child's fault, yes it is a HUGE burden and COSNTANT reminder, but still- from a political perspective it's all or nothing, if it were up to me those who were raped (politically) would have the choice (religion in there there would be no rape or abortion- but that's not life). If I were raped though I would definately keep the child though. But in politics it's all or nothing.\n6) There is ALWAYS adoption- if you're willing to kill a child, why are you worried about its life in an adoption agency???\n7) We are not God, we do not have the right to say who lives and who dies. \n8) From the moment of conception it IS alive.(to be alive it has to fill 4 criterias, (1) metabolism, (2) growth, (3) reaction to stimuli, and (4) reproduction)\n9) It's either pro-life or pro-death, not pro-choice because where is that child's choice? and the oppisite of life is death and that's what they are saying is good- the right to put a child to death- YAY!!! hah not!\n\nI see NO plausible defense for this abomination at all.
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It is an interesting dichotomy wherein pro-choicers want abortions on demand, and they question/argue about when a fetus is considered a human being.\n\nHowever, if a pregnant woman is attacked in some manner by someone, and the fetus dies, then the pro-choicers want the attacker charged with murder for killing the fetus they are all too willing to kill in the first place.  \nThe difference?...they'll state that the woman wanted to keep the baby, now they call it a baby because it's wanted, but unwanted, they'll call it a fetus.  Interesting
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Pro-choice. If I was raped I might not want to have the baby. I probably would-because the baby didn't do anything, and I'd probably end up giving it up for adoption, but I still want to be able to choose. And why should anyone have the right to make that choice for other women? I'm also pro-choice because with abortion legal at least its quick, safe and doesn't kil the mother or simply deform the fetus. before legal abortions there were still abortions, they just were unsafe and killed many desperate young women, and those who didnt die faced criminal charges.
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Most abortions occur at 6 weeks, where the embryo doesn't have brainwaves or cerebral cortex. It basically looks like a salamander. This is not a baby. However, if the woman completes the pregnancy, a child is born with all the complete developments and cerebral cortex. That is a child. It would cause irreversible psychological damage to the child if his/her dad doesn't want to see them. It will screw them up for life. You're pro-life, will you support a man's option for the woman to have an abortion? He can't force her. Your reasoning contradicts your beliefs in abortion.
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pro choice.\n\nwith 6.2 Billion people on the planet, don't you think it's about time we start thinking about population control?\n\nNow if only the rest of the planet would start thinking this way
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Yes.  Even John Kerry, who supported abortion, stated that life begins at conception.  And as medical technology advances, we are finding that an infant can live outside the womb at earlier ages than before thought.\n\nTo FromMontana:  You speak of science, yet your response is quite unscientific. If life does not begin at conception, then there is no life at all in the fertilized egg.  If there is no life in the fertilized egg, that it is unable to divide and multiply.  If it is unable to multiply and divide, there would never be an eventual baby.  Living matter does not suddenly derive from non-living matter.  If I recall correctly, the Law of Biogenisis (life begets life), disproved spontaneous generation in the 1700's.  Yet to make the claim that the fetus is not alive implies the ridiculous conclusion that life (the born baby), suddenly sprang from dead matter.  Please, give me a break.
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pro-life with exception for rape and incest which accounts for almost nil. By now after all these years of sex education, and condom handouts you would think they would know how to avoid pregnancy! Instead they use it as a form of birthcontrol.
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No one has the right to make a "choice" that kills another innocent human being.  It's amazing how completely ignorant most pro-aborts seem to be when it comes to prenatal development and pain perception:  \n\nhttp://www.advocatesfortheinnocent.com/fetalpain.html\nhttp://www.justthefacts.org/clar.asp\nhttp://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-A-2-prenatal.html\nhttp://www.studentsforlife.uct.ac.za/foetal%20dev%20photos.html\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/3847319.stm\nhttp://www.lifeissues.org/ultrasound/11weeks.htm\nhttp://www.cbrinfo.org/Resources/pictures.html\nhttp://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-A-4-video.html\n\nThe average age of an aborted baby in America is 10 weeks.  By that point, the child is fully formed and can even suck her thumb.  If her palm is pricked, she will pull her hand away and open her mouth.  In an ultrasound video of an abortion at 11 weeks, the child can be seen struggling violently to escape the suction instrument, while her heartrate doubles and she opens her mouth wide.  Unfeeling, unaware, and unformed?  Hardly!  However--even if the child was unaware and not fully developed, it would still be wrong to kill her.  Shooting a premature infant in her sleep is no less murderous than strangling a full-grown adult while he is awake.\n\nSince when does being "unwanted" make people less worthy to live than everyone else?  Should we kill homeless people and elderly people who are "unwanted," too?  Let's be honest, too--there is no such thing as an "unwanted" baby in the U.S. There are two million couples waiting to adopt right now, including couples who want to adopt children with health problems such as HIV, Down Syndrome, and spina bifida.  \n\nNewborn babies cannot survive without their mothers, either.  Left alone, they will die.  They are completely dependent.  Does that mean it's okay to kill them, too?\n\nWhere is the compassion?  Where is the logic?  Pro-aborts are completely twisted, yes.
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I apologize now cause this is gonna be long and more than likely will be added to.\n\nI'm always wondered about this.  I know it's one of those spin things but it's hard to pin this one down.  To use myself as an example, I am Pro-Choice.  I also consider myself Pro-life because I would never ask a woman I got pregnant to have an abortion.  First off, I think I should take the responsibilty for it and carry it through to term even if we don't want it.  (This brings up the debate of it's not my body so I can't choose and I agree, I can't.  But I would hope that a woman I slept with would be willingly to listen to what I have to say about the baby inside her that I helped create. Once Again I hope she would, but it's not my body and thus I cannot choose for her.)\n\nThe reason why I would never want an abortion are two-fold, I'd want to step up to the plate and father that kid.  If we decided not to keep it, then I'd want to give it up for adoption so someone else who can't have a baby for some reason or another can finally have one (I have a friend who cannot get pregnant through normal methods and she wants mroe than anything to be a mother.  Did you know invitro-fertilization is like $4000 a shot?  That doesn't even mean you will get pregnant, it means you have a chance to!)  I think that clarifies my Pro-choice/Pro-life stance.  I also don't believe that I have the right as an EQUAL member of human society, to force my values on others.  I don't consider myself to be any more special than anyone else on the streets.\n\nPeople refer to it as "Pro-Death" because they feel like it needs to be an opposite of the "Pro-life" platform.  It has to be called an opposite to be given a choice is rational while outlawing CHOICE, and thue FREEDOM is not.  I bet the tunes would change if "pro-Life" was refered to instead of "Removal of a right", which is what it really is.  Secondly, has anyone ever been to a pro-death rally?  Of course not, That would be considered Genocide (stopping all births would be an effective method of stopping humanity and thus genocide).  \n\nHere's the funny thing, people who are "Pro-life" also tend to be for the Death Penalty.  How is that Pro-Life?  There IS debate on whether a baby is a human or not and thus a murder, there IS NO debate on whether a prisoner is a human.  Perhaps a foul murdering human, but nonetheless human.  Is that not a murder?\n\nOh one more thing.  I am 100% against partial birth abortions.  That practice disgusts me.  I think it disgusts just about everyone who knows teh method of it.  Regardless, I would not want a law that states you cannot do it.  But here's what i think, you carried it that long, just deliver the baby and give it to someone that wants it.
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life begins at conception. At the rate changes happend from the instant of conception is amazing. there is a beating heart only 8 days after conception.
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If you believe that life begins at conception, then it would be murder. If on the other had you think that at conception all that is there is a blob of cells, then that is not murder.\n\nAs for me, if I were ever impregnated, I would have a life growing at the moment of conception. If anyone were to kill it, it would be murder. I wouldn't have an abortion because to me, it is murder\n\nEach woman has to decide for HERSELF what it is for her. Since some people do see nothing but a blob of cells, well for that woman, she doesn't see anything wrong with abortion. I think that we should keep out of woman's pants and reproduction issues and let the individual decide for herself when it comes to this issue. This should never have been an issue for public policy.
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But the base idea is still there that life has intrinsic value. Also, conside the passage in Hosea that speaks of abortion as a punishment for sin (Hosea 9:14) and the passage that shows God's disgust at the Ammorite practice of killing babies in the womb (Amos 1:13).\n\nGod makes it clear that life begins in the womb, that we are made in the image of God, and that human life is more valuable than animal life. Put all those together and you can see that God has a very negative view of abortion.
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They're not pro-choice.  They're pro-abortion.  Ask them if they support a man's right to choose and see what kind of faces they make.
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As a christian I vote against eveyone that is pro-choice.\nThe unborn need a voice. Only God can hear their muffled screams. The unborn are also live humans that need protection. The woman can choose to do whatever she wants with her own body, as long as it don't harm anyone else. \n\n"Woe to the one that harms the least of the one of these, my children."