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Can we as a nation now relate to the Innocent killing of children in Connecticut?
But are unable to stop the massacre of innocent babies in abortion?
Must we keep up the killings of innocent children in the class-room
and in the woman about to give birth?
The children are our heritage our life blood, must we lose it for the freedom of choice and having your rights to kill?
Please tell me the status of the baby if its not aborted.
If you don;t abort a fetus or what ever you call it,
it will come to full birth and be a child of God, just like you are too.!!
Some of us think that the thing has a right
to be born and live and breath just as you do.
Have you thanked your mother tonight that she didn't abort you?
Please let me put it this way;
six or seven years ago in Connecticut
the aborted children would have been in the massacre.
Why is their a difference be3tween being aborted or massacred
Thank you for the good answers, but please why isn't adoption a solution?
We are adopting Chinese babies and babies from other nations because there are not enough babies here in America for adoption, why?
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
Mrs Gren, that is...
Movement
Respiraiton
Sensitivity
Growth
Reproduction
Excretion
Nutrition
Those are the 7 criteria something needs to be considered alive, if a fetus/embryo can't move, breathe, feel/see/hear/taste/smell, grow, reproduce, sh*t and/or eat then it isn't alive. After 6 months it can do all of those things (apart from reproduce, but that doesn't really count, that's just used when you look at an entire species, they will be able to reproduce when they're older).
If it can do a certain amount of those things than it's technically not alive. I don't know when the cut off point is for when it can do those things, but what I do know is that while it is a ball of cells, it can't eat, or move, or respire. In fact it can't respire for most of it's 'life' in the womb because it relies on the placenta for oxygen and nutrients.
I don't know when the cut off point is, but it's not alive as soon as it's in the room, and I trust scientists who are far more qualified on this subject than you or I to decide a correct cut off point for when it's alive/dead.
- Douglas LLv 78 years ago
I understand your position but I can not agree with you. Abortion is a solution to a problem. I agree it is a regrettable solution but it is not your call. YOU are not going to raise that child that would otherwise be aborted. How dare you force someone to complete a pregnancy that they do not want, or can not afford?
I do not expect to change your mind. We both see the same facts and come to different conclusions. I suspect your position is based on religious moral values. Mine is based on logic.
