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Abortion is wrong!

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I'm the youngest one posting, But I'm not the childish.

please learn to use the post quote button because you jumble quotes and make them look like they are all from the same poster when they are not.
 
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MelissaShaeQuote:
Originally Posted by JESUSFREAK1354

I'm the youngest one posting, But I'm not the childish.

please learn to use the post quote button because you jumble quotes and make them look like they are all from the same poster when they are not.

Good enough for you?
 
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Look human embryo up on wikipedia.


It is a person.
Paraphrasing, a citation or a quotation would have been nice, rather then just saying that a source supports your claim. At the moment you haven't actually shown Wikipedia to state anything.

wikipeida said:
The status of the human embryo is debated among bioethicists. Many Christian ethicists believe that an embryo does, in fact, possess personhood. Gilbert Meilander, for example, identifies conception as the point at which a new individual human being comes into existence, since "when sperm and ovum join to form the zygote, the individual's genotype is established."[2] However, human embryos have been cloned, in which case no new genotype is established.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryo
A debated topic does not mean that any side of the topic is correct, Wikipedia is saying a fetus is as much a person as it is not a person.

If I am quoting from the wrong article, then please give a link to the correct one.

This is of course without stating the lack of academic credibility Wikipedia has.
 
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You needn't go as far as cloning. Identical twins have the same genotype - do they have half a soul each? Are they 'one person'? If you abort one twin and bear the other live, have you actually aborted anyone? IMO, the fact of identical twins tends to negate the argument (Gilbert Meilander's "conception as the point at which a new individual human being comes into existence, since "when sperm and ovum join to form the zygote, the individual's genotype is established.") that conception is the moment of establishment of personhood.

Then, of course, there are the 45% to 60% of zygotes and embryos which are naturally aborted, or do not implant, regarding which no anti-abortionist seems able to offer an opinion. The religious argument will be 'God works in mysterious ways', (which makes little sense if he has created a person at the moment of conception, why call so many back before they go any further?). The biological explanation is, of course, that many physical things can go wrong betwen conception and live birth, and most of them occur very early.
 
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Can the abortion debate be settled through debate?

Can the abortion debate be settled through violence?

Can the abortion debate be settled through further scientific study?

Can the abortion debate be settled through religion?

Can the abortion debate be settled at all?

Does it need to be? Why? What are you willing to do to settle it?
 
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Can the abortion debate be settled through debate?

Can the abortion debate be settled through violence?

Can the abortion debate be settled through further scientific study?

Can the abortion debate be settled through religion?

Can the abortion debate be settled at all?

Does it need to be? Why? What are you willing to do to settle it?
Violence will end the debate. Round up and kill all the pro-death abortionists. That will clearly prove that the pro-life way is the only way
 
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Can the abortion debate be settled through debate?

Can the abortion debate be settled through violence?

Can the abortion debate be settled through further scientific study?

Can the abortion debate be settled through religion?

Can the abortion debate be settled at all?

Does it need to be? Why? What are you willing to do to settle it?

Too bad it will never be settled. As long as we have the ability to think or the misfortune of being programmed as some people are, abortion will always be debated. Just one of those things that people feel so strongly about but many have no idea why or can't produce facts to backup their ideas which is evident in the very first post.
 
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