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View Poll Results: What marks the beginning of a human life? | |||
First genetically unique cell | 8 | 32.00% | |
Birth | 6 | 24.00% | |
Other (explain) | 11 | 44.00% | |
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07-22-2006, 11:46 AM | #1 |
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Emergence of humanity
This is a bit of a feeler thread to scope out the sentiments on the board. When do you believe a human life begins?
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07-22-2006, 12:26 PM | #3 |
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When the developing fetus can support life independently of the mother. (Third trimester?)
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07-22-2006, 12:30 PM | #4 |
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Onset of neocortical brain activity (about the same time as viability)
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07-22-2006, 05:22 PM | #5 | |
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07-22-2006, 12:41 PM | #6 |
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I would say first genetically unique cell . No one could be the person they are without that first cell . It is the beginning of a human life .
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07-22-2006, 01:01 PM | #7 |
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I'm with Peter Singer. I don't think they're human until 2 years old, when they become rational free agents. Anytime prior to that, do whatever you want to them.
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07-22-2006, 01:09 PM | #8 |
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Rational free agents at 2 ? That must be something to do with all that early learning they do in America . The British start becoming rational free agents when they are knocking on for fifty .
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07-22-2006, 01:35 PM | #9 |
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As soon as it is a zygote.
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07-22-2006, 04:34 PM | #10 | |
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07-22-2006, 10:20 PM | #11 | |
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Pretty sad stretch there TW, even for you. I know you like to argue, but you can't do better than that, really? |
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07-22-2006, 11:51 PM | #12 |
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When it has learned how to walk and talk.
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07-22-2006, 11:59 PM | #13 | |
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Zygote and cancer cells are same - stem cells. Cancer (ie breast cancer, leukemia, etc) is when stem cells have gone astray. Suddenly those stem cells are no longer human life because they replicate faster? Suddenly because they replicate faster, then they are no longer human? Rather silly to somehow claim a zygote so different from other human cells. They are all human life according to those religious definitions. Why does a zygote instead have "god's seal of approval"? Silly emotion. |
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07-23-2006, 12:05 AM | #14 |
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07-22-2006, 06:02 PM | #15 |
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I went for first genetically unique cell. And yes, tw, I think that abortion clinics are killing children ... the problem I have with abortion is not that it is done, but that the process is cloaked in all kinds of semantic nonsense about fetus, not baby, tissue, not clump of actual living cells, etc. etc. The marketing of abortion is what I abhor. Understand what you are really doing, and make you choices based on that.
Weighing the alternatives of safe and legal vs. available either at great risk or only to the wealthy as existed before the 1970s, until there is some better alternative, I'll stick with safe and legal ... you can't reflower that particular virgin.
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