Stopping abortion the correct way

[Josie]

I think at least two other posters have insisted on using the phrase "a life" rather then "life".

And who has ever meant the beginning of life as in the beginning of all human life? No one. It's a silly thing to keep saying.

 

[Patriotic Voter]

I have taken undergraduate biological anthropology and a graduate seminar in the anthropology of women that included a significant section on the biology of pregnancy, and I have read a fair number of peer-reviewed journal articles on biology in genetics, embryology, and bioethics.

I don't even remember what seventh grade science or freshman high school biology were even like.

Seventh grade biology is where I learned how a new life begins, including identical twins and even conjoined twins. It is where I learned zygote behavior before it divides to become an embryo. I learned humans have 46 chromosomes.

I have never thought "a new life" begins at conception for either mammals in general or humans in particular. I think the concept is ridiculous.

Will you argue that twins have the same new life? They develop afterward. Will you argue that they are "different" or what? In rabbits, a pregnant rabbit in a situation of scarcity will resorb the fetus into her own body: it just disappears, no death. That's just a start.

In the case of identical twins who are not conjoined, one new life begins at conception and the other begins seconds later, after it splits. I assume you know more about that than I do. So the second twin is an exception to the rule.

 

[weaver2]

Seventh grade biology is where I learned how a new life begins, including identical twins and even conjoined twins. It is where I learned zygote behavior before it divides to become an embryo. I learned humans have 46 chromosomes.

7th grade!!! ????
Well, I have to tell you summer camp is a more advanced learning environment with many savvy 4th graders willing to share information. Tragically, we didn't learn about zygote behavior but we substituted with quite a lot of hilarious jokes, 4th grade level, involving our new found knowledge. It was a summer to remember!