ok, this is my first post on anything on this site.
Welcome aboard.
anyways, i am a Christian but i am also prochoice.
I make it a practice never to discuss the question of abortion on the basis of religion. However, since you use both the words Christian and pro-choice in the same sentence, you invite this question.
The word Christian means "follower of Christ". Since Christ always spoke lovingly of children and gathered them to Him, do you think that one who aborts a child is following Christ?
if you think about it, a fetus is an unborn human offspring from the end of the 8th week of pregnancy until birth. prior to this time, the offspring is an embryo.
What is the difference between embryo, fetus, infant, crawler, toddler, pre-schooler, adolescent, teen ager, young adult, adult, mature adult, senior citizen? They are all human beings at various stages in their lives.
Life commences at conception. How do we know this? Because it is from that point that growth commences. What is it that is growing? Is it a fish? A vegetable? An animal? A nothing? If you say it can be human at the eighth week, why not at the seventh? Sixth? Fifth? Right on back to the first instant when the 23 chromosomes from the male sperm unite with the 23 chromosimes from the female egg and an new, unique being with its own DNA, blood type, and ability to live into old age is created. There is never a time at which humanness is not present.
so the point being is that it isnt really a human being until after that 8th week but the mother has 12 weeks before its too late to abort the fetus.
Check your biology text. Its alive, its human, it's a child in an early stage.
In actuality, the law permits a child to be aborted at any time prior to the emergence of its head from the mother.
