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If we bury a body in the ground because we consider it dead when the heart stops?

Then why do some consider an unborn baby with a heartbeat not an unborn child?

Update:

Vital signs cease when the heart stops.

So you are saying that they should use a defibrillator on an aborted baby for 2-4 hours?

Update 2:

In my culture(opinion) is its alive upon conception. The word BORN means when it comes from the womb.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    We don't consider death the stopping of the heart.

    The heart can remain "dead" for 2-4 hours and still be revived.

    That's what defibrillators are for.

    Death cannot be determined until all vital signs have ceased and all attempts to revive them have failed.

    Source(s): EDIT: No, I'm pointing out that heartbeat does not medically determine life or death. It's not even an opinion on the practice of abortion (which I don't ethically care for) but a scientific fact. Death is a process. The heart stops pumping blood, the lungs stop processing oxygen, then the brain slowly dies as it copes with lack of oxygen flow.
  • Socrates
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Some cultures consider a baby to be a year old three months after it is born. To them, it starts being a living human being at conception.

  • Snuffbox
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    You are attempting to promote a fallacy. And as weak as your logic is, you answered your own question.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    because it isn't born, and first trimester fetus are not babies and cannot survive outside the womb.

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  • Jesus Hates You
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    I see you call it unborn twice. That's the key. It's unborn. Until it is, it doesn't count. Not in the census, and not in any other way. It's none of your concern, since YOU aren't gestating it!

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