Sentences with phrase «fetus is a human being»

It's actually a pretty reasonable position — if the fetus is a human being.

Since a fetus is a human being, deliberate abortion is also an unwarranted taking of life.

Lots of them do believe that the fetus is a human being.

We must take care to explain the medical and scientific fact that embryos and fetuses are human beings and the necessity of recognizing the intrinsic value of all human life.

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Thats right folks, the right to life candidate was making money off the disposal of human fetuses.

Their answer to your question, I suspect, would be that society should limit the exercise of free will when it is harmful to other human beings, including (they would assert) a fetus.

A fetus is not considered a human life.

A fetus is in fact a human, that's not a debatable opinion, hypothesis, or theory, it is scientific fact.

Definition of fetus -LCB- IS -RCB- An unborn or unhatched offspring of a mammal, in particular an unborn human baby more than eight weeks after conception.

A human fetus goes through the entire evolutionary process in 9 months, from simple multi-cellular life, through amphibian (some children are born with webbing still between their fingers and toes, like a frog), through mammalia and primates (we even have tails, of which the coccyx is a remainder).

CatholicMom Wrote: First you say a fetus is not a human but then you say that abortion is a tragedy... then you call it an unwanted child.

In order to justify abortion one must be able to present a case for a fetus not being a rights bearing human.

Abortion is a stickier issue, because it is a reasonable position to call a fetus a human being.

Patrick Lewis, First you say a fetus is not a human but then you say that abortion is a tragedy... then you call it an unwanted child.

Is the human intellectual concept of personhood applied to an anencephelic fetus, and which ones with all the various genetic variations of the condition where the fetus has no brain, or part of a brain?

A fetus is not a human.

Actually, the fetus has the potential of becoming a human being but it's not a set thing.

At Psalms 139, the man David was inspired to write that «your (God's) eyes saw even the embryo (comprising 56 days) of me, and in your book all its (the human body) parts were down in writing (our DNA), as regards the days when they were not formed (before becoming a fetus), and there was not yet one (complete organ) among them.»

3 - The fetus stage: The face, hands and feet appear and the human figure is formed.

A fetus is not viable outside the human body until approximately 20 weeks gestation, so if abortion is being had after that then feel free to scream murder... I might be inclined to agree with you.

They refuse to make absolute claims like a fetus is not a human being / person, and people have an absolute right to terminate a pregnancy.

(The crop being human embryos and fetuses.)

If quickening corresponds to the emergence of a unified experience in the fetus, then it is an important stage in the movement toward human personhood.

They say further that even if one does not equate a fetus with a child, as long as one attributes some value to the fetus» and they demonstrate how economists routinely make such outrageous calculations in insurance claims for loss of body parts» and put the value as low as one hundredth of a human being, the lowered crime rate would not come near justifying the number of abortions.

They probably wanted to redefine «person» so that they could weasel their way into applying the rights we have as living breathing human beings to clusters of cells (fetus) not viable outside the uterus.

Therefore, let us imagine the universe after the example of a human fetus in the womb which is therefore tending toward rebirth.

Which means that the fetus, which has all of the organs, including gender specific organs, is also the continuation of human life.

The most pressing question, was, perhaps: «If Dante had the scientific information we have now, would he still think the fetus was more plant - like before it became a human?»

The argument that life begins at conception is absurd in that what should be said is parasitic life begins at conception, actual human life only becomes a valid argument when the fetus is able to live outside the womb, prior to that the life is basically in the hands of the host — mother.

The same is true for the fetus, for the living organism in relation to its environment, for the human «I» in relation to the «Thou.»

As for me I believe that fetus is just a label on a human just like african or american.

What SINS were COMMITTED by EVERY child, baby, fetus and human embryo that justified torturously KILLING them?

Because the nature of being human is to be in relation, to affect and to be affected by others, the unborn fetus can not be considered fully and properly a human being.

Pro-life folk honestly believe that the fetus growing in the womb is a real, unique, human life, and the idea of killing a baby is totally appalling.

It's only several months into the term that fetuses actually morph into full - fledge humans with feelings and consciousness.

However, most discussions have moved beyond the question «Is the fetus really human?»

The legal definition of murder is: «The unlawful killing of a human being or fetus with malice aforethought.»

To some, the human fetus (Latin for «unborn child») is a mass of protoplasm which has no personal rights.

If they developed artificial wombs, that were capable of gestating a human fetus, or if we developed the ability to transplant a fetus from one woman to another, those would be analagous, and would present other options instead of abortion.

The day there's a death certificate issued, or a life insurance payment made, or a funeral service held for a fetus is the day that a fetus is equal to a born human.

Now, my question becomes, is the reason for the delineation so that we don't get into arguments about whether a fetus is a person, or are we saying that a fetus is not a human being but we want it included in the definition of the law?

Some would call the fetus «potential» life, but the clear fact is that the unborn are alive; they must therefore be defined as human.

But the flippant way it's often discussed, from both sides, but here specifically in regards to the fetus, as if it's not a human life, is outrageous.

«The unlawful killing of a human being or fetus with malice aforethought.»

Is it even conceivable that we would remove his life - support system on the ground that his existence, like that of the fetus, is highly inconvenient to us and that he does not look human at the momenIs it even conceivable that we would remove his life - support system on the ground that his existence, like that of the fetus, is highly inconvenient to us and that he does not look human at the momenis highly inconvenient to us and that he does not look human at the moment?

Those who are offended by the claim that horses or chimps or whales (OFD; also see OOTM 13, WM 49) deserve more respect than the fetus in the early stages of pregnancy usually resort to a type of question - begging which Peter Singer calls «speciesism»: the human fetus in the early stages of pregnancy deserves moral respect just because it is human.

For a summary of some of the scientific research which supports the view that the fetus is not a prepackaged human being (e.g., even something so relatively simple as a fingerprint arises at least in part due to chance events not present in a fertilized egg) see Charles Gardner, «Is an Embryo a Persois not a prepackaged human being (e.g., even something so relatively simple as a fingerprint arises at least in part due to chance events not present in a fertilized egg) see Charles Gardner, «Is an Embryo a PersoIs an Embryo a Person?

The fetus is obviously alive, as is grass, and it is obviously human in the sense that it has human parents and has a human genetic structure.

As for it not looking like a human being, the embryo or fetus, or call it what we will, is exactly what a human being looks like at that age.

If the answer is YES to all four above then the fetus is a living unique human being with a beating heart, that is not harming any one.