The stages of life: a biology lesson for the anti-abortion extremists in DP

[watsup]

The anti-abortion extremists, mostly "evangelicals" and their Republican political supporters, plus the Catholic clergy (the Catholic laity mostly agree with the Roe decision) have a wet dream of demanding that a woman becomes a ward of the STATE the very moment that she conceives, and that the STATE and ONLY THE STATE can make decision as regarding the potential termination of her pregnancy. In order to underline their claims, they carefully start calling the product of conception a "baby" or a "child" immediately thereof. So this is a biology lesson for the anti-abortion extremists so that they might better understand the stages of a pregnancy. I will be using standard definitions, so I see no need to specifically cite each one.

ZYGOTE: A diploid cell formed by the union of two haploid gametes, esp. by the union of an egg cell and a sperm cell.

And there you have it. A zygote is a CELL. No, a zygote is not a "baby" or a "child". It is a single CELL. And there is no reason to claim that a woman MUST then carry her pregnancy to term based on having just conceived a single CELL. That is clearly fascist overreach.

EMBROYO: an unborn or unhatched offspring in the process of development, in particular a human offspring during the period from approximately the second to the eighth week after fertilization (after which it is usually termed a fetus).

And so the embryo is in the "process of development". As such, it is NOT a fully developed "baby" or "child", no matter how often the anti-abortion extremists use those terms. This is the stage where most women who want an abortion get one, and the state should have no say in this whatsoever.

FETUS: an unborn offspring of a mammal, in particular an unborn human baby more than eight weeks after conception.

Now we are getting into the area of "viability"

VIABILITY: Fetal viability is the ability of a human fetus to survive outside the uterus. Fetal viability is generally considered to begin at 23 or 24 weeks .

There is really not much of a debate as regards viability, with the overwhelming number of Americans agreeing that the fetus should indeed be carried to term after reaching the third trimester.

But the point here is that a zygote is NOT a "child" or a "baby" and the anti-abortion extremists use that term in an emotion-based manner to try to stir the stages of pregnancy into one. To believe that a zygote at the moment of conception "deserves" to develop all the way to birth is based mostly on the "moral standards" of certain cults of Christianity and is the reason for the First Amendment, to prevent such cults from establishing laws based on those particular "moral standards".

 

[Phys251]

The anti-abortion extremists, mostly "evangelicals" and their Republican political supporters, plus the Catholic clergy (the Catholic laity mostly agree with the Roe decision) have a wet dream of demanding that a woman becomes a ward of the STATE the very moment that she conceives, and that the STATE and ONLY THE STATE can make decision as regarding the potential termination of her pregnancy. In order to underline their claims, they carefully start calling the product of conception a "baby" or a "child" immediately thereof. So this is a biology lesson for the anti-abortion extremists so that they might better understand the stages of a pregnancy. I will be using standard definitions, so I see no need to specifically cite each one.

ZYGOTE: A diploid cell formed by the union of two haploid gametes, esp. by the union of an egg cell and a sperm cell.

And there you have it. A zygote is a CELL. No, a zygote is not a "baby" or a "child". It is a single CELL. And there is no reason to claim that a woman MUST then carry her pregnancy to term based on having just conceived a single CELL. That is clearly fascist overreach.

EMBROYO: an unborn or unhatched offspring in the process of development, in particular a human offspring during the period from approximately the second to the eighth week after fertilization (after which it is usually termed a fetus).

And so the embryo is in the "process of development". As such, it is NOT a fully developed "baby" or "child", no matter how often the anti-abortion extremists use those terms. This is the stage where most women who want an abortion get one, and the state should have no say in this whatsoever.

FETUS: an unborn offspring of a mammal, in particular an unborn human baby more than eight weeks after conception.

Now we are getting into the area of "viability"

VIABILITY: Fetal viability is the ability of a human fetus to survive outside the uterus. Fetal viability is generally considered to begin at 23 or 24 weeks .

There is really not much of a debate as regards viability, with the overwhelming number of Americans agreeing that the fetus should indeed be carried to term after reaching the third trimester.

But the point here is that a zygote is NOT a "child" or a "baby" and the anti-abortion extremists use that term in an emotion-based manner to try to stir the stages of pregnancy into one. To believe that a zygote at the moment of conception "deserves" to develop all the way to birth is based mostly on the "moral standards" of certain cults of Christianity and is the reason for the First Amendment, to prevent such cults from establishing laws based on those particular "moral standards".

Thank you for calling total anti-abortionism exactly what it is: Extremism. It is extremism, no different and no less bad than trying to legalize rape, which those righties might do if they ever get the chance.

 

[watsup]

Thank you for calling total anti-abortionism exactly what it is: Extremism. It is extremism, no different and no less bad than trying to legalize rape, which those righties might do if they ever get the chance.

Of course it's extremism. There are two choices:
Moderate: allow the woman to make the choice, not the state. The majority of Americans agree with this choice, but that matters not to the extremists who want to overturn the opinions of the majority.
Extremism: a woman MUST carry her pregnancy to term. Clearly fascist state overreach.

 

[Lovebug]

The anti-abortion extremists, mostly "evangelicals" and their Republican political supporters, plus the Catholic clergy (the Catholic laity mostly agree with the Roe decision) have a wet dream of demanding that a woman becomes a ward of the STATE the very moment that she conceives, and that the STATE and ONLY THE STATE can make decision as regarding the potential termination of her pregnancy. In order to underline their claims, they carefully start calling the product of conception a "baby" or a "child" immediately thereof. So this is a biology lesson for the anti-abortion extremists so that they might better understand the stages of a pregnancy. I will be using standard definitions, so I see no need to specifically cite each one.

ZYGOTE: A diploid cell formed by the union of two haploid gametes, esp. by the union of an egg cell and a sperm cell.

And there you have it. A zygote is a CELL. No, a zygote is not a "baby" or a "child". It is a single CELL. And there is no reason to claim that a woman MUST then carry her pregnancy to term based on having just conceived a single CELL. That is clearly fascist overreach.

EMBROYO: an unborn or unhatched offspring in the process of development, in particular a human offspring during the period from approximately the second to the eighth week after fertilization (after which it is usually termed a fetus).

And so the embryo is in the "process of development". As such, it is NOT a fully developed "baby" or "child", no matter how often the anti-abortion extremists use those terms. This is the stage where most women who want an abortion get one, and the state should have no say in this whatsoever.

FETUS: an unborn offspring of a mammal, in particular an unborn human baby more than eight weeks after conception.

Now we are getting into the area of "viability"

VIABILITY: Fetal viability is the ability of a human fetus to survive outside the uterus. Fetal viability is generally considered to begin at 23 or 24 weeks .

There is really not much of a debate as regards viability, with the overwhelming number of Americans agreeing that the fetus should indeed be carried to term after reaching the third trimester.

But the point here is that a zygote is NOT a "child" or a "baby" and the anti-abortion extremists use that term in an emotion-based manner to try to stir the stages of pregnancy into one. To believe that a zygote at the moment of conception "deserves" to develop all the way to birth is based mostly on the "moral standards" of certain cults of Christianity and is the reason for the First Amendment, to prevent such cults from establishing laws based on those particular "moral standards".

I'll go and roast some pollywogs in their honor tomorrow.

 

[Gordy327]

The anti-abortion extremists, mostly "evangelicals" and their Republican political supporters, plus the Catholic clergy (the Catholic laity mostly agree with the Roe decision) have a wet dream of demanding that a woman becomes a ward of the STATE the very moment that she conceives, and that the STATE and ONLY THE STATE can make decision as regarding the potential termination of her pregnancy. In order to underline their claims, they carefully start calling the product of conception a "baby" or a "child" immediately thereof. So this is a biology lesson for the anti-abortion extremists so that they might better understand the stages of a pregnancy. I will be using standard definitions, so I see no need to specifically cite each one.

ZYGOTE: A diploid cell formed by the union of two haploid gametes, esp. by the union of an egg cell and a sperm cell.

And there you have it. A zygote is a CELL. No, a zygote is not a "baby" or a "child". It is a single CELL. And there is no reason to claim that a woman MUST then carry her pregnancy to term based on having just conceived a single CELL. That is clearly fascist overreach.

EMBROYO: an unborn or unhatched offspring in the process of development, in particular a human offspring during the period from approximately the second to the eighth week after fertilization (after which it is usually termed a fetus).

And so the embryo is in the "process of development". As such, it is NOT a fully developed "baby" or "child", no matter how often the anti-abortion extremists use those terms. This is the stage where most women who want an abortion get one, and the state should have no say in this whatsoever.

FETUS: an unborn offspring of a mammal, in particular an unborn human baby more than eight weeks after conception.

Now we are getting into the area of "viability"

VIABILITY: Fetal viability is the ability of a human fetus to survive outside the uterus. Fetal viability is generally considered to begin at 23 or 24 weeks .

There is really not much of a debate as regards viability, with the overwhelming number of Americans agreeing that the fetus should indeed be carried to term after reaching the third trimester.

But the point here is that a zygote is NOT a "child" or a "baby" and the anti-abortion extremists use that term in an emotion-based manner to try to stir the stages of pregnancy into one. To believe that a zygote at the moment of conception "deserves" to develop all the way to birth is based mostly on the "moral standards" of certain cults of Christianity and is the reason for the First Amendment, to prevent such cults from establishing laws based on those particular "moral standards".

None of those terms or definitions matter to some anti-abortionists. They do not care. They seem to equate all terms with an actual human being. Such people are completely irrational and unreasonable.

 

[HangLow]

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[Lursa]

It's actually even simpler. The unborn in a human woman is human, at any stage. It has Homo sapiens DNA. It is alive.

However science is not any kind of authority on anything but study and categorization. It's objective. It doesnt 'value' any species or stage of development over any other. It recognizes no rights for any species.

Value, rights, laws, etc are all man-made concepts and subjective.

What authority says that unborn humans have a right to life? Can someone cite anything? The Const does not. And all federal court decisions that have examined this, that I'm aware, of do not.

Where is the legal justification that the unborn should be protected over the Constitutional rights that protect women? The govt is obligated to protect our rights.