FK wrote:there are some parasites that are only a few cells and cannot survive on their own. Bacteria for example.SourWorms wrote:FK wrote:Once conception begins and the fetus is given chromosomes, the potential for life becomes a reality. Before sex, the baby could turn out to be anyone, but once the chromosomes are given it is now a specific human being.SourWorms wrote:a fertilized egg is in no way a life. an ant is more alive and serves a greater purpose than a fertilized egg but you have no problem exterminating them. its no different from using a condom, you are preventing a baby from being born. a fertilized egg does not breath and is not self-sustaining and thus is not alive in any sense of the word. at that point it is a mass of dividing cells as much alive as a paramecium.
From the website pinthin posted on the last page:
At that very moment [conception], a new and unique individual is formed. All of the inherited features of this new person are already set – whether it’s a boy or girl, the color of the eyes, the color of the hair, the dimples of the cheeks and the cleft of the chin. He or she is smaller than a grain of sugar, but the instructions are present for all that this person will ever become.
This is now a unique living thing, it's no longer potential, it's reality!
how is it living though? it is just a group of cells that cannot survive on its own.
the fetus is not given "chromosones" the egg and sperm cell fuse to create a diploid from two haploids that already contained 23 chromosones. it is not a fetus at this point at all but rather a mass of cells rapidly dividing. i don't see how this is a living organism.
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I am beginning to think every that is pro-abortion lacks a basic education in biology.