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Originally Posted by FiftyBelow
1. They should be treated as any other human remains.
2. If the parents desire so, I don't see why not. I've heard of many couples who've gone through miscarriages and have had a service or some sort of way of grieving their lost child.
3. For the 3rd time in this thread, my issue with abortion stems from the deliberate and intentional ending of a human being's life.
4. Given that the intention of life insurance is to provide financial assistance to the insuree's dependents I'm not sure how that would apply since the fetus would have no dependents.
5. I don't understand this question. Are you assuming that I support imprisoning women who get an abortion because I never stated that.
6. Gametes contain human genetic material. However, without fertilization, there's isn't a new individual human being that has been created.
The zygote is a human being, biologically speaking, just at very early development. For the 4th time in this thread, my issue with abortion is intentional ending of life and not natural miscarriage.
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Thanks for answering. My questions were all trying to get at how we as a society view a fetus when the question is whether to kill it or not.
1)Why is a fertilized embryo outside the womb not treated the same as an embryo inside the womb. They are as much a living thing as a newly fertilized thing inside a womb. By your definition life has been created at this point.
2) in this case you are acknowledging that the zygote isn’t the same as a human life. If the parents want to mourn it they can choose to whereas it would be really odd to say that about a two year old. So there is definitely a different value placed on embryonic life as opposed to outside the womb life in terms of the trauma, traditions around mourning, and long term scarring. This was true long before abortion became mainstream. So independent of the abortion questions we certainly treat fetuses differently.
3) If a disease killed 33% of babies after they were born we would be doing everything in our power to prevent this from happening. My point wasn’t trying to equate abortion to miscarriage it was to show that the life of a fetus and the life of a child outside the womb have clearly different values in the way we deploy medical research.
Aside from the ethics of Abortion what is the practicality of legislation if you were to ban it. What do you do with the kids people don’t want? How do you deter and prevent abortion. What punishments do you put in place for people who get them