CalamityJane wrote:No one is afraid of words, they're just using the right terminology for
it, which is not only medically defined but also legally.
What you are referring to is a religious term which doesn't hold merits
anywhere but your church.
Show medical evidence that the unborn is not a living human being.
He/she has distinct DNA, not the mother's. How is it 'part of the mother's body' ? If you think the term 'DNA' is only used at my church, I've got to wonder where you've been.
He/she has a heart that beats and circulates his own blood, not his mother's, before the end of the 4th week -- before many women know they are even pregnant. (The term 'heartbeat' is used outside of my church too, I believe. I've even heard doctors use the term!)
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If you want to rest on the legal instead of the medical definitions, then I would hope you will be consistent when abortion laws are reinstated , and you will affirm that the unborn is a living human being because the law defines him as such. Correct?
The new law in South Dakota would be a good example. Do you agree that it is wrong to exterminate the unborn because he is a living human being in South Dakota?
How 'bout the proposed Indiana law which defines life as beginning at conception? If it passes, would you agree that the unborn is indeed alive and deserving of protection because the law says so?
If you travel to a country where abortion is not legal, is the unborn therefore a living human being in those countries because their laws have decreed him so?
Are you consistent? Or just using 'legal' definitions when it is 'convenient' ?