Abortion - When Does Life Begin?

The difference is the gestational age of viability. I'm amazed that it seems like almost no one knows about this. Abortions are illegal after about 8-12 weeks. A double homicide is only implemented if the fetus is 20 weeks or more.

If killing unborn fetuses is a sin and murder, what about felling trees and killing animals? Aren’t you killing ‘life’ when you cut down a tree or kill an animal? Or is ‘right to life’ only a human prerogative or is it that a human life is more valuable than a tree’s or an animal’s? If man, indeed, is the greatest creation of God, then he has been created to protect and nurture, not to destroy and terminate. I am no environmentalist nor am I a wild-life enthusiast, but what I am trying to say is that we have to evaluate each situation based on its particular merit. Life’s entry into a feotus is like a striking a matchstick…in a flash you have fire! But when does that flash happen inside the zygote, who does it, how does it happen…no one knows! By the time a foetus is grown-up enough to ‘feel’, safe abortion is no longer possible. So you see, when you abort a foetus, maybe there is life (since it’s cells are multiplying) but it can’t feel …less cruel than slaughtering animals and felling trees. But we do kill animals and fell trees. Why do we do it? Pure human compulsion. Abortion should also be treated as that…no parents in their right senses (maybe except in Asian nations, where female feoticide is rampant) would want to kill their unborn child. We should not force our views on others without understanding their compulsions!

The courts have to rule it as murder because of the length of the pregnancy. Once it has pased a certian stage it is considered by the courts as a human being even if it is still dependent on the mother to live. Not all judges like this rule but they have to abide by it. I myself think life begins at conception but then again lawyers are not allowed to state this fact. Yes doctors are guilty of this if they abort a fetus that is in an advanced stage but they are doing what the state says is legal for them to do if they follow the laws. The difference is they are leaglly aborting the fetus ,they are not killing the mother which will also kill the fetus.

I think life begins at conception. As we know the fetus is growing inside the womb of the mother and that it is developing to come out day by day; it is already on the process of life. The courts may have defferent points of view based on the laws and rules based logics. But I think life starts within the womb of the mother. As such aborting a healthy fetus in a healthy mother is murder.

If I remember correctly, Laci Peterson was around 7 months pregnant. Her pregnancy was viable & she was obviously intending to continue it. I'm not familiar with the second case, but I'm going to assume that pregnancy was also past a point of viability. IMO- "life" begins somewhere between conception and birth. When there is viability, and when there is a soul; then there is a life. The first qualifier isn't cut in stone- as science & medicine make it possible to save even very severely premature babies. But somewhere in the neighborhood of 20-odd weeks there is reasonable viability. The second is even less easier to decide, and some aren't even going to agree that it exists at all.

at conception.

it begins at birth.

Philippine laws particularly the Civil Code provides, Birth determines personality, but the conceived child shall be considered born for all purposes that are favorable to it. Philippine law has to consider birth as the beginning of life because it determines that a person has civil personality. An instance is, if life begins at conception, even a 3 months old unborn child can succeed or inherit from his parents. That's actually the purpose of the law. However, in medical terms or religious sense, the beginning of life may be different and consider conception as the start. It is when the heart starts to beat even on the maternal womb.

Life begins when the time that there is a life inside the tummy of the woman. Abortion is an absolutely wrong and it is a crime of murder. And absolutely I am not favor for this. And I think the fetus have life and like us she/he have a right to see this wonderful world.

Life begin if you found out that you are pregnant. And I am against it. Abortion is an absolutely wrong and it is a crime of murder. And absolutely I am not favor for this. And I think the fetus have life and like us she/he have a right to see this wonderful world.

I will go with the opinion that life begins at pregnancy. As soon as a woman becomes pregnant, the foetus starts go grow. We know that only living objects grow. I am against abortion in general. But if someone has some genuine reasons and abortion is better for the overall well being, then I will not be sure. I also think that state should provide support to forsaken newborns. If there is some machinery which takes care of undesired babies, may be we see a decrease in number of abortions.

If I put a seed into the ground and nuture and water it I will have a plant. If I pull it out of the ground it will die. Same with fertilization. A baby will result. Stop the process while "in the ground" there will be no baby. It makes not one iota of sense to have two different value systems UNLESS you are a politician. If a pregnant women is murdered there are two charges of murder but if a doctor aborts the unborn child it is lawful. Interesting morality.