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No. It is a legal argument. One that is used to dehumanize human life for the express purpose of ending it.Wrong. It is a medical determination. Lawyers don't decide viability, doctors do. You just want to ignore the issue of viability, because you know that it destroys your juvenile, simplistic view of abortion.No. That is not a medical determination. That is a legal determination. It is a human being at conception. It is alive at conception. It is human at conception.It's neither arbitrary, nor capricious. It is a medical determination:You are making an arbitrary and capricious distinction. There is only human life which encompasses the human life cycle which begins at conception and ends at death. You are dehumanizing them to rationalize that it is good and just to end their lives.You keep confusing "human life" with viable human life. I told you, after your first post, this is not a question of "Is it a human life". It is a question of is it a viable human life. Until you can prove that that clump of cells is independently viable, then your argument is useless, and based solely on your religious convictions. Yes, some human lives do have more right of self-determination than others. Those who are not viable, whether by virtue of being just a clump of cells, or by virtue of being in a vegetative state, have given up the right of self-determination to others - unless, of course, in the case of the vegetative state, that person had a medical directive in place.How am I forcing you to do anything?
Science tells us it is a human being.
“….it is scientifically correct to say that human life begins at conception.” Dr. Micheline Matthews-Roth, Harvard Medical School: Quoted by Public Affairs Council
After fertilization has taken place a new human being has come into being...[this] is no longer a matter of taste or opinion, it is not a metaphysical contention, it is plain experimental evidence...." - Dr Jerome LeJeune, Professor of Genetics at the University of Descartes, Paris, discoverer of the chromosome pattern of Down's Syndrome, and Nobel Prize Winner, Report, Subcommittee on Separation of Powers to Senate Judiciary Committee S-158, 97th Congress, 1st Session 1981
"An individual human life begins at conception when a sperm cell from the father fuses with an egg cell from the mother, to form a new cell, the zygote, the first embryonic stage. The zygote grows and divides into two daughter cells, each of which grows and divides into two grand-daughter cells, and this cell growth/division process continues on, over and over again. The zygote is the start of a biological continuum that automatically grows and develops, passing gradually and sequentially through the stages we call foetus, baby, child, adult, old person and ending eventually in death. The full genetic instructions to guide the development of the continuum, in interaction with its environment, are present in the zygote. Every stage along the continuum is biologically human and each point along the continuum has the full human properties appropriate to that point." Dr. William Reville, University College Cork, Ireland.
"When a fetus is viable, that is, when it is of sufficient maturity so that it can survive into the neonatal period and later achieve independent moral status given the availability of the requisite technological support, and when it is presented to the physician, the fetus is a patient. In the United States viability presently occurs at approximately 24 weeks of gestational age (Chervenak, L.B. McCullough; Textbook of Perinatal Medicine, 1998). In Portugal, the mortality increase significantly with GA<25 weeks. At 25 weeks mortality was 44.4% and at 26 weeks was 24.4% (I. Macedo et al. Matemidade Dr. Alfredo da Costa, Lisbon, 2000)." Dr. G. H. Breborowicz.
The only people who cannot understand the distinction are religious people who want to create laws to force everyone to behave as if they agree with the religious preconceptions, and moral positions.
And here's a handy little chart to rate viability, here in the US:
Interestingly enough, most rational Pro-Choice proponents do not really support the concept of abortion after 24 weeks, except under the extreme conditions of the health of the mother. Why do you think that is?[TBODY] [/TBODY]
COMPLETED WEEKS OF GESTATION AT BIRTH CHANCE OF SURVIVAL 21 weeks and less 0% 22 weeks 0-10%* 23 weeks 10-35% 24 weeks 40-70% 25 weeks 50-80% 26 weeks 80-90% 27 weeks >90% 30 weeks >95% 34 weeks >98%