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Truthmatters
So you think people didn't know how pregnancy occurred prior to 150 years ago?
While they may not have been able to see the phenomenon and not have the tech to pinpoint it early in life, that doesn't change the fact that as soon as they realized the woman was pregnant, it was that she was pregnant with CHILD. No one ever said, 'pregnant with FETUS'. No one ever pretended the child wasn't a real 'person'.
Life begins at conception. That is a scientific FACT. Pretending otherwise is simply absurd. IF the fertilized egg attaches, then it will continue to grow and develop. If not, it dies and is expelled from the body naturally. Again... FACT. Obviously miscarriages occur (natural death) as do still borns (some times natural, sometimes accidental), but at no point is it not a child/progeny. At no time is it anything other than human. As long as it is alive and human, you are trying to find a way to justify taking that life if you believe in abortion.
I am of the opinion that the child deserves basic human rights protections, the first and most important right being that of life. Thus, the only reason the mother should be able to 'choose' to kill the child is if it was a life vs. a life, where only one of the two could survive. Every other instance, with the exception of rape, is that of convenience.
is a sperm alive?
is a human egg alive?