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Originally Posted by Phaneuf3
Also explain to me how you can rationalize killing an unborn child as not being murder.
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I sure hope that you're a vegetarian...
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you are also doing something to the child. and there was more than one person that made that kid as well. you're affecting THREE lives not one
edit2: well affecting TWO lives and ending one
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Again - it depends on when you consider a body to be alive. Is it brain stimulus? Is it breating? Is it the ability to reproduce? Is it holding the characteristics of a potential living thing?
I don't consider a pre-mature fetus... one that has not yet developed brain functions... to be alive. It, to me, is no more alive than the hair cell that is killed when hair is yanked from the head.. no more alive than the cells that get destroyed when breathing in second hand smoke... no more alive than the brain cells you destroy when drinking or holding your breath.
After a certain length of time (what length? I don't know), brain functions and stimulus responses (kicking in response to a voice) give the characteristics that I would consider life. Simply having the potential is not good enough.