(06-26-2022 02:41 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(06-26-2022 02:30 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(06-26-2022 02:24 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(06-26-2022 02:12 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(06-26-2022 01:57 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  The adult female.

Using that newly in place definitional stance, a newborn baby placed on a mountaintop in 30 degree weather with no aid 'will not proceed to develop [to] a person.'

Ergo, newborns are not human life. Quite the exploration into the human psyche we are undertaking today.

I didn't say any of that straw man stuff.

I just pointed out that a fertilized egg will not go develop into a full-fledged human being without the intervention of a completely separate organism.

This may seem like a pointless fact, but it might play into the discussion as to whether human life begins at fertilization or at implantation.

Stolen from Twitter - you can also freeze an embryo and not kill it. A newborn baby? Not so much.

I find it frustrating that there are clearly, to everyone, multiple developmental stages between fertilization and birth, but there is given near zero respect here to those who happen to believe that life, as we see it, starts somewhere in between those two points.

I don’t care if people agree with the perspective, but that absolute lack of respect from Tanq and OO is galling.

Lack of agreement is lack of respect? I guess that works on your objections to my opinion as well.

I have stated my reasons for thinking as I do.

Not at all - and that should be clear. But saying that the only reason I hold this opinion is to support a political agenda is disrespectful.