Does life start from men considering that the seed fertilizes and conception starts from fertilization?

[melssvdv]

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I was talking about the fact that conception starts when the sperm fertilizes the egg. Thus all that reproduction started the moment the sperm fertilizes the egg. Thus starting something that originated from a man.

[katiesmuff]

Seems pretty factual to me.

[melssvdv]

Sperm? From your husband? Or from your boyfriend?

[katiesmuff]

Could be sperm from anyone who got it inside your vagina.

[Gexuoo]

It's true i think

[AviatorTom]

Yes. Life starts when the genetic material of a sperm combines with the genetic material of an ovum, initiating the mitosis sequence of cell replication into an embryo, which further develops into a fetus.

Conventional wisdom, though, does not treat an embryo or fetus as human, until the fetus has developed fully so that it can survive, on its own, outside the uterus. That typically happens around 30 weeks gestation, which is why many abortion laws allow aborting prior to 30 weeks, but require special conditions after 30 weeks.

[Twalli]

Life, or human life? Life starts at conception, but that true for any mammal. At a certain point a human fetus is indistinguishable from that of a pig and elephant by look (discounting size). I'm pretty sure people don't think that is a human being (a potential one, but not an actual one). Human life starts when the fetus is able to survive without the umbilical cord.

[slatyb]

Life in sexual organisms begins when a male gamete and a female gamete combine and begin growing. This does not mean that a fetus is a person.

[ChicoFromThe305]

Man was made first so yea

[Mike_Hum]

what?

[melssvdv]

I was referring to the fact that conception begins when the sperm fertilizes the egg. In that sense, reproduction starts at the moment of fertilization. From that perspective, the process is initiated by the sperm.

[Mike_Hum]

The egg has to be there also.

[melssvdv]

Yes but I was talking about the fact that the sperm took the action to make it all happen: fertilization. It is the seed that fertilizes the egg not the opposite. That is what I am talking about.

[Mike_Hum]

well yeah, we all know this.