2010-10-10, 10:29 PM
Hazzy Wrote:Twins have the same genetics. Are they the same person?
Vegetables have family members. They have a mark on society. But vegetable-state is not genetic. It is environmental. They use to be able to function just like any other human, but now they cannot. This differs from a fetus who has never been able to do these things.
A human is an organism. It takes from an environment and keeps itself functioning.
A group of cells biologically dependent on its mother is not an organism. It is a group of cells dependent on another being. Much like a virus. Viruses are not considered living. Neither are fetuses.
A fetus cannot think, it cannot feel, it cannot respond to its environment in any way. It's nervous system, and therefore brain - the most noteworthy human trait, is not developed. It is not a human in any shape or form aside from raw genetics, but my skin cells have that.
The reason vira aren't "alive" is because they can't reproduce by themselves. Cells are living because they can reproduce without the help of another cell. A virus has to infect a living cell to reproduce. A fetus is alive because its cells are reproducing without having to infect another cell to do so. Therefore, the fetus is a living human.
I honestly don't see the real problem with prohibiting abortions. There are numerous forms of contraception that are readily available. One has sex knowing full well the consequences might be they could get pregnant. If you get pregnant and don't want the baby, put it up for adoption. There are tons of people out there who want children but can't. I see no justification to essentially kill another human being. (Your own son or daughter, no less!)