Does human life begin at conception?

[Anonymous]

[Izumiblu]

By any scientific definition it is life
It is also human because it has human dna
Lastly it is not the mothers dna or the fathers, it is unique dna that has in all likelihood never been seen before on earth.

Yes it is human life in a scientific sense.

[Anon85]

Exactly

[PrincessPie]

No it doesn’t.

[Clap-FLUTES-YesYes]

Yes it does. Things that grows, has life. If it needs growth to make it to get a heartbeat, then it's growing. Thus, life. Things without life can't grow.

[PrincessPie]

Thank you 😊

[LegateLanius]

Scientific fact, 100 percent begins at conception.

[disgustingweebtrash]

Well, yes it does

[tek555_pessimist]

No. The process to create human life begins at conception, but it takes a while for anything even remotely recognisable as human to eventuate, and to be able to think.

[ladsin]

I said B, but because I think you're missing the point.
Yes, the fetus is most certainly human, I hope that nobody would be confused about that. It's not, for example, an alien baby. The question is whether or not we should grant that fetus the rights associated with personhood. Person and human are different things.

That said, I don't think it's even an issue of personhood, the debate is whether or not a woman has the right to self autonomy. I think she does, no one has the right to use her body without her permission. This is a right that we even grant to corpses in my society.

[DaveDavidson]

It’s not hard to argue that it technically does, but I absolutely believe that it should not legally be considered a human being until it actually develops a consciousness. Not when it’s a little bean or just because it’s heart starts working.

[ben7point4]

If you can't figure out if you want to have a child after the first week or two of conception, then you should probably start a family at another point in your life. Better yet, use protection.

[sheb12]

For me
It does. I’m not even conservative I not even believe there’s a god but life starts at the earliest stage. Abortion shouldn’t be taken as BC

[jacquesvol]

Abortion is too complicated, expensive & invasive: I don't think it's really used to replace BC

[sheb12]

In many cases it is

[jacquesvol]

That would suppose some have an abortion every month or every other month. Be realist, please.

[0112358]

I don’t think so.

A corpse has living human cells. It takes more then that to be alive.

It’s fairly obviously earlier than birth though. Mid to late second trimester is when we see emergence of what it means to be a living human being, not just living human cells.

[SirRexington]

The process to form a human life begins at conception but actual life, actually existing? No. Plants, trees, bugs these things are all alive, so what? There are still living cells in a recently deceased person. This has no merit on if that life is valuable.

What makes us human is the ability to think, to perceive, to be cognitive and independent and autonomous. Until the child can survive without the need of the mothers body then it isn't truly an autonomous being. It's like a limb at that point, an extremity or an extension of who she is until it's developed itself as it's own being.

[jacquesvol]

Before conception, in your testicles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOnhqdKsP1M

cdn.ebaumsworld.com/2012/01/82170511/murder.jpg

[jacquesvol]

@CT_CD HEY, HEY how many million kids you killed today?

[Asker]

None

[taleswapper]

In fact, life is an unending chain extending unbroken back in time for billions of years. Interrupt any part, and it stops, but goes on in other branches. That's the beauty of it. Human life doesn't "begin" anywhere; it only ends, at death.

[Hungry_Shark]

Yes.
Real date of birth is never known.
Because your real date of birth is when your father's sperm met your mother's egg in the womb.

[Nora_Sutherlin]

Human life begins at 26th day when the heart starts to beat.

[Clap-FLUTES-YesYes]

Nah. If it grows, it's life. Things without life won't grow into the stages needed to form a heart.

[Nora_Sutherlin]

@Clap-FLUTES-YesYes there are many factors that a thing with life consists. Growth is a factor, but its not all. A mountain also grows, but it Doesn't have a life.

[Clap-FLUTES-YesYes]

Mountains don't grow. That's the bottoms of the rocks pushing upwards from the ground.

[Nora_Sutherlin]

@Clap-FLUTES-YesYes yeah, that's the point. But growth is not the only factor to judge if it has life or not.

[Clap-FLUTES-YesYes]

But if you don't feed what's growing, it dies. The process of growth is still at conception.

[Clap-FLUTES-YesYes]

No matter what, God and science both by consensus says it starts at conception, so the majority wins in votes. But it doesn't matter. You're likely pro choice since you believe it doesn't start at conception.

[Nora_Sutherlin]

@Clap-FLUTES-YesYes im not a prochoice. Most of the abortions are done after 3rd trimester, at that point the fetus already has pain receptors. As i said before, growth is a factor of life but there are other factors too. life is complicated thing, you can't decide if a thing has life or not just by the factor of growth.

[Clap-FLUTES-YesYes]

Yes but using the definition of life, it can have differing answers and still be right whether it starts at conception or not.

[AM-205]

I believe it with all my heart!!!

[mac_daddy416]

It begins 40 days after egg and sperm meet to make a baby.

[Gedaria]

It must that is when it starts growing !!!

[stuntbrain]

Being asexual has nothing to do with having an opinion about human life

[AGuyWhoKnowsALittle]

It has everything to do with it

[stuntbrain]

How so?

[Tiffers2154]

I agree. How so? It makes no sense to me.

[ben7point4]

Asexual people can still donate eggs/sperm. Why can't they they have an opinion on how or when a life should come into being?

[Tiffers2154]

Lmao no shit they can have opinion. As like yes or no. Why does "I'm asexual" need to be one of the choices? Then all you've learned is that they are asexual, not what their opinion is.

[stuntbrain]

I assume "I'm asexual" is a sarcastic choice, since so many questions offer this exact answer as an option. People are dumb

[Redrocket69]

Ehh... who cares abort it if thats the best way to go..

[SuccessfulHornDog]

Clearly abortion is murder. I just don't care. Each female needs to decide for themselves. I support their right to choose but I won't lie about what it is.

[AlphaStyles]

Yes it does same way a plant life's begins when it gets planted and water gets poured on it
Life starts from the smallest of things just because it hasn't come to be alive doesn't mean its not alive
If its not alive then it wouldn't develop

[Halucinator]

I guess yeah

[Freelancer95]

I'm atheist... So! I believe that life begins when some kind of cognitive 'being' is formed aka when the brain starts building neural pathways.

[Anon85]

Freaking trees are alive lol and last I checked they are far from cognitive

[Freelancer95]

It specifically says "human" life.

[Anon85]

Yeah. Life. That is human. Human life.

[Freelancer95]

Also people cut trees down all the time and we don't scream "murderer" at them.

[Freelancer95]

Obviously I was talking about life past the lowest part of the food chain...

[Anon85]

We're talking about science here, remember? It's not kinda sorta life, it's just life. It is empirically alive. And it is scientifically human offspring. That makes it human life lol People don't scream "murderer" at lumberjacks because trees aren't human lol

[Freelancer95]

Neither is a newly fertilised egg. Going back to my point that I don't believe that it's a human life until it has cognitive process.

[Anon85]

That's all well and dandy it's just not true lol

[Freelancer95]

Well isn't this just a wonderfully circular argument.

[Anon85]

Well you just keep saying it's not human life while acknowledging everything that proves otherwise...

[Freelancer95]

You're focusing in the definition of life not the moral implications after you tack on the word 'human'. To go back to your tree analogy, that's like thinking you already have a tree the moment you plant a seed in the ground. Yes it has the potential to be a tree but it's just simply not a tree yet.

[Anon85]

That's the stages of growth. A walnut seed is still "walnut life" before it has developed into a full-grown tree

[Anon85]

You can argue about the morality of abortion or whatever all you want but to say that a human embryo that is alive is not human life is a little ridiculous

[Freelancer95]

I'll agree that it is life, I never denied that fact, it is indeed life, however I do not believe that it is a human yet. Simply the building blocks required to create one. Much like our walnut seed. Both are destined to become something they are not.

[Anon85]

But the walnut seed is still a walnut as a being. It's not just a seed that will become one. They're called walnut seeds for a reason. So why is a walnut called a walnut seed at its earliest stages but a human is... nothing? Just a multi-celled amoeba that has the magical ability to become a human eventually? Really?

[Freelancer95]

No it's not. It's a nut, not a tree. Same as an egg is an egg, not a human.