Most pro-life people I know consider
the life of all fetuses to be equal.
«However, the Court also maintained that the state has an interest in protecting
the life of a fetus after viability — that is, after the point at which the fetus is capable of living outside the womb.
If saving
the life of the fetus is so important that they would consider stripping others of their freedom to do it, then it is important enough for them to sacrifice of themselves both personally and financially to do it.
If you believe the government can force a woman to donate the use of her internal organs to sustain
the life of a fetus, then why can't the government force anyone to donate the use their internal organs to sustain the life of someone requiring a transplant?
Why can't we look at the quality of
life some of these fetuses would face had they come to term?
Modern society values
the life of the fetus over that of the mother.
Under their care, my TSH soared far above the recommended reference range for pregnancy endangering
the life of my fetus, and I miscarried.
The local judge (Graf, The Brady Bunch Movie) in the small town is so fed up with seeing her face, and the fact that she has had four children already (all of which had to be given up for adoption due to their mother's behavior), that when he discovers she is pregnant again decides to make law history and have her put in prison for endangering
the life of her fetus, making it clear he would be a bit more lenient with her if she were to have it aborted.
While protesters are fighting Planned Parenthood for
the life of a fetus, I'm fighting to change the rhetoric used to include fighting for the woman that's seeking help at health care centers.
Impose requirements to preserve
the life of a fetus delivered during an abortion procedure (Arizona and Arkansas)
Not exact matches
For a more current look at what happens when abortion is severely restricted, we looked to Brazil, where abortion is illegal except in cases
of rape, when the mother's
life is in danger, and in the rare instances
of anencephaly, a severe fetal anomaly in which the
fetus lacks parts
of the brain, leaving the infant with virtually no chance
of survival.
Thats right folks, the right to
life candidate was making money off the disposal
of human
fetuses.
It is fancy and rad to you to say that you support the
life and rights
of the unborn
fetus.
While I personally feel that rights
of the
fetus to
live eventually override the mother's right to voluntarily terminate, that point is near the end
of pregnancy and I'm still hesitant to tell someone what to do with their own body.
The world can not know the unsurpassable worth
of human
life without a people who consistently work to protect it - in the
fetus, in the convict, in the immigrant, in the soldier, and in the enemy.
In 1992 the members
of Valley Hospital Association (VHA), a private secular organization made up
of residents
of Mat - su Borough, adopted a policy prohibiting abortions in its hospital except in cases
of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, or where the
life of the mother is threatened, or because «the
fetus has a condition that is incompatible with
life.»
@Keith actually it's you who can't seem to stomach the reality
of things we know full well what it means, once again you have to get your facts strait, it's only legal to abort the first 21 weeks when the
fetus can not
live outside
of the mothers womb, if the mother is to give birth within this time line the the
fetus could not survive (a miscarriage).
As a result
of the Thomson / Yamanaka breakthroughs, it is, all
of a sudden, respectable to speak about the humanity not only
of fetuses on the verge
of becoming babies but
of the embryo at the very beginning
of life.
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).
once again you have to get your facts strait, it's only legal to abort the first 21 weeks when the
fetus can not
live outside
of the mothers womb if the mother would give birth within this time line the the
fetus wouldn't survive, a miscarriage.
What will appear on the computer list
of acceptable and unacceptable genetic traits that determine the
life or death
of the
fetus?
Living does not equal having legal rights that trump those
of the person upon whom the
fetus is dependent.
Just being an atheist doesn't mean I subscribe to someone's idea
of what
life is and when it «starts» and whether a
fetus is a baby or not.
We should make a firm distinction between the lawful execution
of a convicted murder and the taking
of the
life of an innocent
fetus» which is done without justification or excuse.
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.
Which means that the
fetus, which has all
of the organs, including gender specific organs, is also the continuation
of human
life.
Either the
fetus is a person whose
life must be defended (as surely as if it were already outside the womb), or it's a bunch
of cells, a mere pimple, and the woman is free to do as she will.
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.
I believe once a
fetus is capable
of living without the direct need
of another person's body, then that
fetus is ent - itled to be protected.
If parents may abort a
fetus with Down's syndrome — whether to make room for another baby, to spare it a
life of possible frustration, or simply to avoid the expense and fatigue
of caring for a retarded child — then they may also painlessly kill an infant.
They are the fullness
of time in relation to the
fetus or the seed in three ways: (1) as source
of initial time by giving initial becoming or
life to the seed or
fetus; (2) as source
of continued time or growth; and (3) as source
of maturation — hence,
of fullness
of time and growth
of the seed or
fetus.
Kenneth C. Edelin, M.D., is convicted by a Boston jury
of the manslaughter
of an anonymous emerging
life born to an unknown, unwed black teen - ager — a 24 - week
fetus.
If the
fetus does not have the same claim to
life as a person, it appears that the newborn baby does not either, and the
life of a newborn baby is
of less value to it than the
life of a pig, a dog, or a chimpanzee is to the nonhuman animal.
The American Lutherans state that «a qualitative distinction must be made between [the
fetus's] claims and the rights
of a responsible person made in God's image who is
living in relationships.»
At issue is Obama's opposition to Illinois legislation in 2001, 2002 and 2003 that would have defined any aborted
fetus that showed signs
of life as a «born alive infant» entitled to legal protection, even if doctors believe it could not survive.
The tyranny
of the PRO-
LIFE argument is so retarded because it demands that NO ONE should be able to have an abortion, even if the
fetus is (1) the result
of a vicious r - ape, (2) the pregnancy threatens the
life of the mother, among other examples that prove that abortion is not always an «act
of convenience.»
Woman is concerned about how having a baby could change her
life 16 % Woman can't afford baby now 21 % Woman has problems with relationship or wants to avoid single parenthood 12 % Woman is unready for responsibility 21 % Woman doesn't want others to know she has had se x or is pregnant 1 % Woman is not mature enough, or is too young to have a child 11 % Woman has all the children she wanted, or has all grown - up children 8 % Husband or partner wants woman to have an abortion 1 %
Fetus has possible health problem 3 % Woman has health problem 3 % Woman's parents want her to have abortion < 1 % Woman was victim
of ra pe or inc est 1 %
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.
However, the definition
of life after birth involes a beating heart... i think you need to do some research on when a
fetuses heart is debveloped and beating... you may just be surprised.
The woman will have to be constantly paranoid about what she eats, drinks, and does with her
life, since she'll constantly be afraid that she'll be charged with murdering or harming the
fetus inside
of her.
Bu tuntil that point, until the
fetus has all
of its organs and a functioning nervous system, there is no
LIFE to take.
Otherwise, instead
of dead
fetuses, you'll have dead children and dead adults who have
lived shortened
lives filled with suffering due to an absence
of basic resources like food and health care.
It's easy to sit on the sideline, offer your opinions about when
life begins and call babies
fetuses but in the end it doesn't affect you personally unless you are the father
of this child.
You know, if you give a
fetus the right to
life, you're basically enslaving the woman in whose body that
fetus is growing, and if she harms the
fetus at all, or ends up miscarrying it, birthing it prematurely, or ends up with a stillborn baby, she'll be charged with the death
of that
fetus.
Basically, the
fetus inside
of her will be ruling her
life.
When one camp argues that women's «reproductive rights» must be protected and another camp argues that the
fetus» «right to
life» must be protected, we seem to have reached an impasse which the language
of rights, in and
of itself, can not lead us out
of.
By implication, however, if it could be shown that the
fetus is a separate
life from that
of its mother (for example, having its own genetic code from the time
of conception), then even by liberal criteria there would be a crime with a real victim, hence prohibited by the social contract with its minimal requirement
of protection
of innocent persons.
Since a
fetus is a human being, deliberate abortion is also an unwarranted taking
of life.
The Hawaiian court has thus set itself on the same course
of action as the misguided Supreme Court in 1973 when it thought that laws about abortion were merely an assertion
of the rights
of a
living mother and an unborn
fetus.
But as his thinking on the morality
of abortion gradually changed, he began to see the
fetus as a very important being whose
life ought not to be ended except under extraordinary circumstances.