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Originally posted by Natame
Ok im sorry but i guess i have issues with this... a womans body is hers and hers alone. I have had three wonderful children and i know i would never have aborted them. But i also believe a woman has the right to choose her fate. I do understand the fact that a baby once conceived is alive. But knowing that there is alot of different reasons that a woman could or would want to terminate that said pregnancy is her CHOICE. I would never dictate to anyone that wanted to have a tattoo or plastic surgery, to have a cancer removed or life threatening surgery..Your body belongs to you... only you have that choice to do what you will with it.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Originally posted by RainbeauBleu
But pro-lifers would kill the living in order to make their point!
Only a extreme faction of pro-lifers do this. We leave the killing to the "pro-choice crowd"... You do that very well and EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THE WEEK...
But keep laughing about it, we know exactly how you feel about this topic...
A baby is a body, growing inside what is supposed to be the safest place for it.
How about consulting with the other body before deciding to take its life away.
Ok so her choice over her body to get tattoos and plastic surgery, but to pass it off as "my body", they don't see that the life growing inside them is also a body, who has no rights at all.
Originally posted by BO XIAN
reply to post by Solaris15
IIRC even 7 billion could all have a plot of land in Texas.
The technologies are available to enable many more than that to live on the earth without trashing the earth or each other. Such technologies are being withheld.
The globalist oligarchy realizes that 7 billion slaves would be a LOT harder to keep enslaved than 200 million.
Besides, the critters from hell have convinced them that the earth and mankind cannot survive with so many people.
Originally posted by BO XIAN
Besides, the critters from hell have convinced them that the earth and mankind cannot survive with so many people.
Originally posted by OutKast Searcher
reply to post by Southern Guardian
You keep trying to say this is my opinion...but it is not. It is biological fact.
I only have one question for you. You are taking a Biology exam, what is the correct answer to this question.
When does the life cycle begin?
A) When brain waves are present
B) At Fertilization/Conception
C) When the heart is functioning
D) When the fetus leaves the womb
Originally posted by Annee
Originally posted by ChristianJihad
reply to post by Annee
Last time I checked - - a major problem in the world is children abandoned by their fathers
Hm, not taking sides but this is not that uncommon umongst primates
I realize humans are primates - - but we have evolved just a tad bit more (arguable sometimes).
I will concede that life begins at fertilization of the egg.
No true Scotsman is an informal logical fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion.[1] When faced with a counterexample to a universal claim, rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original universal claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it by rhetoric, without reference to any specific objective rule.
I will concede that life begins at fertilization of the egg. I don't however think a fertilized egg can be compared to a human being, and I don't think we can legally give it the same rights as a human being.
Originally posted by Leahn
Originally posted by BO XIAN
Besides, the critters from hell have convinced them that the earth and mankind cannot survive with so many people.
The idea that "the Earth cannot survive with so many people" is as old as the beginning of the 19th century with Thomas Malthus. Yet, two centuries later, we have almost 4 times as many people as Malthus said that was too many, and we are fine.
Originally posted by OutKast Searcher
And this is how the abortion debate goes everytime when argued from the standpoint of biology. It begins with pro-choicers adamentaly declaring that a fetus isn't "alive",
I only deal with facts and logic.
The facts tell me that life begins at fertilization/conception...and logic prevents me from trying to alter that statement by commiting a fallacy to re-define the assertion.
So you have conceded that a fetus is a human life. Now can I ask you WHY you feel you have to declare it as not being a "real human"?
If you are ok with abortion, why can't you say you are ok with killing human beings that don't meet your criteria of humans that deserve the right to life?
Why must you try to re-define what it is to be "human
One very lucky spermatozoon out of hundreds of millions ejaculated by the man may penetrate the outside layer of the ovum and fertilize it. This happens typically in the upper third of one of the woman's Fallopian tubes. The surface of the ovum changes its electrical characteristics and normally prevents additional sperm from entering. A genetically unique entity is formed shortly thereafter, called a zygote. This is commonly referred to as a "fertilized ovum." However that term is not really valid because the ovum ceases to exist after the completion of conception. Writers often refer to the "moment of conception" or "instant of conception." Actually, this is a process that extends over time. Half of the zygote's 46 chromosomes come from the egg's 23 chromosomes and the other half from the spermatozoon's 23. The result is a unique DNA structure, different from both that of the ovum and the spermatozoon. Thus, the resulting newborn will contain a different DNA from its birth mother, and birth father, and from its siblings. These differences may give the child a reproductive advantage or disadvantage over other children in society. It is this factor that Charles Darwin made the driving force of his theory of evolution. The zygote "...is biologically alive. It fulfills the four criteria needed to establish biological life: metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction." 1 It can reproduce itself through twinning at any time up to about 14 days after conception; this is how identical twins are caused. The zygote will contain an X sex chromosome donated from the egg and either an X or Y sex chromosome coming from the spermatozoon. If it ends up with XX chromosomes, the xygote is female; if XY, it is male. In this way, the sex of a zygote, embryo, fetus and child is determined by the birth father's permatozoa. Unfortunately, in the past, women were often blamed for producing new or no male children. In some cultures, particularly those where women are devalued, they are still unjustly blamed.
Originally posted by WarminIndy
reply to post by Southern Guardian
A Fetus is a human being. It contains all the human genome and chromosomes that make it human.
Originally posted by Southern Guardian
Originally posted by WarminIndy
reply to post by Southern Guardian
A Fetus is a human being. It contains all the human genome and chromosomes that make it human.
Who says? Is this scientific fact? Is the conclusion of the scientific community, or just your intepretation?
Something containing human genome, chromosomes doesn't make it a human being necessarily. DNA, genes, chromosomes, we find this in parts of our hairs, our saliva. It has already been demonstrated by science that it is possible to clone humans out of DNA left in segments or parts such as hairs.
Seriously, this is where I end my debate concerning the definition of a human being, because it really goes no where when it concerns the personal intepreations of pro-lifers. In the end this is about choice, and I have demontrated time and time again, the choice is always left up to the woman in the end. It's her body, her pregnancy, as nature has given her. Your views or morals don't apply. This is something pro-lifers cannot seem to understand, comprehed, or refuse to acknowledge.
Originally posted by WarminIndy
You say a hair does not indicate human life. Yet that strand of hair contains the entire DNA information about the human that hair originated from.
What you are intimating is that a human exists solely within the post-uterus form, fully developed. Yet that tiny human does not have the mental capacity yet to make complex decisions. It, however, is still developing that feature. But that tiny human is not developing any more of its DNA, it already has that information fully functioning, as a zygote.
That is science.