What is life, and when does it begin?

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Lots of debate about this - what do you think?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Liberals will tell you that a fetus isn't a human, and doesn't have a heartbeat. Those same liberals claim that the fetus knows its gender. Hmm I believe life begins at conception.

Delphier232 · Accepted Answer

When you get your first bill.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

Life is a cereal made by Quaker Oats, and this is where it begins:

Red-Blaze · Answer

"She is wasting her life"
"They got no life"
"There life has been cut short"

I think from this can get the idea that Life is potintal of someone
Someone climbing up the everst will nowmally be told "They are taking hold of there life" or "There risking there life"

And I think over all it works well with it
So I think life means the potintal of someone/the use of that potitnal

And it start from when they start having a potintal

lightbulb27 · Answer

Life to me is heartbeat and breathing and consciousness. I give benefit of the doubt to start at the earliest point since it is a life in process. Interrupting such life, is... not very nice...

Beyond that, I really don't know.

I haven't studied conception until heartbeat. It is possible that life starts there, I can see argument for that. That might be a bit extreme if the cell division isn't viable.

letuswaltzforthedead · Answer

some of the traits living things have is "Cellular organization, the ability to reproduce, growth & development, energy use, homeostasis, response to their environment, and the ability to adapt" which a embryo has most of them right after conception.

either way, I don't really care on the topic of pregnancy, since i think that's also no reason to prohibit abortions.

life also has other implications, like not doing anything in life or being a waste of life.

CateM · Answer

The dictionary defines life as the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic matter. Life technically begins at conception, but officially begins at birth. After all, birthdays commemorate the day we came into this world, which is the day we were born, not the day we were conceived

exitseven · Answer

This is a tough question. Some people , make an argument that is at the moment of conception. Others think it is right up to the moment the mother gives birth and some even think it is after that. There must be some kind of scientific process to determine when consciousness begins and pain can be felt.

goaded · Answer

Life is a continuous process that has been going on for billions of years. I suspect you mean personhood, and we both know we disagree about that.

Anpu23 · Answer

Lets see, what is life? Life is the ability to eat, breath and grow. A fetus does not independently eat or breath, it is an organ. Until it can live independently from the womb it is not life.

When does life begin, again the moment it takes it's first independent breath. That is biblical as well, life is breath, the bible clearly distinguishes between an unborn fetus from a child in numerous passages.

SmokinAces2000 · Answer

I don’t think you can pin point exactly when it starts but saying that it starts at conception is just scientifically false

Anonymous · Answer

At conception. Ask any scientist and they'll confirm a single cell is a life.

Anonymous · Answer

Life is any organized unit that is able to grow and reproduce itself. For animals life begins when the DNA from the sperm fuses with the DNA from the egg.

jimmy2 · Answer

When the little boy find that egg and go in

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