RE: Abortion is morally wrong
June 20, 2014 at 10:36 am
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2014 at 10:39 am by Heywood.)
(June 20, 2014 at 10:28 am)vodkafan Wrote:(June 20, 2014 at 10:21 am)Heywood Wrote: Is the stem cell now a human being because it was fused with an unfertilized egg? Is the unfertilized egg now a human being because it was fused with a stem cell? These are misleading questions. The unfertilized egg and the stem cell are constituent parts.....that's it. Put those constituent parts together and now you have a human being. The stem cell doesn't gain protected status. The stem cell ceases to exist. A human being begins its existence. The product of this process gains "human being status" because the product of this process is a human being.
No it isn't. Not till it's able to survive on its own. There is a threshold it has to develop to first.
Vodka, the amount of care the mother gives to her fetus is the same as she gives to the bacteria that inhabits her gut. The mother's womb happens to be the environment in which the fetus lives, just as the gut is the environment bacteria live. Both are independent living beings. The fetus lives just fine in the womb without any intervention on the mother's part. It survives in the mother's womb....on its own.