A lot of questions for Anti-Abortion people?

A lot of questions for Anti-Abortion people?
What constitutes life? THe whole argument hinges on different defintions of what it life and is an abortion an end to that Life or potential of life.Now I am only talking about abortion as it exists no as a voluntary choice under 22 weeks. Questions for each position. . . .

If YOU oppose abortion for RELIGIOUS reasons is it the soul and or spirit that makes life? How do you reconcile that fact that most Religions (including Christianity) have taught Aristole's delayed ensoulment theory until the 1900's? Meaning a soul cannot inhabit an unformed body and the fetus is not ensouled until first movement and abortion was not considered murder until after the quickening. Also if it is the SOUL that makes us a Life if our soul does not die when we are killed in Car accident or die by any other means why would it die in abortion. Finally if you are Christian how do reconcile Jesus would be against abortion when it was legal and practiced in his day and he never spoke against it?
IF YOU are against abortion for "SECULAR" reasons. Is it this particular mass of cells that make us life? IF so how do reconcile the fact that cells die bewtween 7 and 21 years and new ones form? Then by the time I am 21 am I a completely different life form then that fetus(I don;t think so. How could I be?)? IF it was those cells that made me a life form wouldn't I have to be? Or is it something untangible that makes it life? This specifically for those in the United States, if it is about granting what you determine as life rights inherent to citizens how do you reconcile that the 14th amendment does guarantees consitutional right only to those "born or naturalized in the United States" and none actually guarantee you the right to life under the Constitution?
IF you go by the UN Declaration of Human Rights, which guarantees the right to life it also specifically states "Human beings born", so how do those apply. Biological defintion (from my limited understanding says a life is a biological system that must import, store and use energy. Does a first term fetus do this?

So what is your justification for saying a first term fetus is a life and therefore you are against abortion.
I am talking about abortion as it exist now voluntary up to 22 weeks not late term or partial birth abortions being legal and on demand.
Premaholic the QUestion is WHAT IS LIFE and why is it life? Please if you can't answer it just don't answer because the question is not if taking a life is wrong. It is what is it.

Answers:

Premaholic: We do not "Give" Life, so we have no right to take it, In any form. The problem is simply solved by personal control!
2008-05-09 06:32:22

malicedmind: I'm not anti-abortion...and I love this question. So many anti-abortion activists can't come up with a logical answer.
2008-05-09 06:32:26

CrazyJay: When a human is conceived it is a human being with potential not a potential human being. Abortion is intrinsically evil. (evil in itself)
2008-05-09 06:32:57

oldernwiser: I am pro-choice. But I just wanted to tell you what a wonderful, well-thought out question this is. I look forward to seeing the responses you receive.
2008-05-09 06:33:20

peace: a fetus could not have life without a soul, therefore from the moment of conception a baby fetus is a human being
2008-05-09 06:33:27

Rev. Kiki-la: This debate is hot, but I find Pro-lifers to be quite irrational. Both with their 'points' and emotions.
2008-05-09 06:33:37

call the owls: I could type away, but you wouldn't be satisfied, and I'd get a bunch of thumbs down. To sum up my opinion, I am pro-life not for religious reasons. If you argue that it's a person's body and the government shouldn't interfere then what are your views on suicide? It's their life and nobody should be able to deny them that oppurtunity right?
2008-05-09 06:33:40

dyLO: A soul is there at the time of conception

Bible Defines Life:
A. Now where uses phrases "human" or "human being"
Uses "man, woman, child, son, daughter, baby etc."
Since these terms are used for unborn children, then we have evidence that human life is present before birth
The Bible makes no distinction of any kind in the terms used to describe a fetus.
Body without spirit is dead: Jas 2:26
The blood is the life: Deut 12:23 fetus has bloodstream at 4 weeks
B. "Begat sons and daughters" Gen 5:3,4,28-30

Begat always refers to conception and fertilization
C. "children & sons in womb" Gen 25:21-22; 2 Ki 19:3; Ruth 1:11

D. "a man child conceived" Job 3:3

notice the difference: day of birth, night conceived see Rev 12:5 "man child born"
E. "mother" of unborn child Num 12:12; Lk 1:43

F. Rom 9:11 for though the twins were not yet born, and had not done anything good or bad

G. "baby leapt for joy" in mother's womb Lk 1:41,44

conceived a "son" Lk 1:36; Acts 7:29

God's Terms for the Unborn
Gen. 25:21,22 In Genesis 25:21,22, Rebekah conceived twins, and "the children struggled together within her." That which was conceived was called a "child" between the conception and the birth.
The Hebrew word used here (BEN) is the most common Old Testament word for a child or son. When used for the physical offspring of humans, it consistently refers to distinct human individuals (see Gen. 25:1-4; 3:16; etc.). Job 3:3
On the very night of Job's conception it could have been said, "There is a man-child conceived." The word for "man-child" (Heb. GEBER) elsewhere means "man," i.e., a human individual (see Job 3:23; 4:17; 10:5; Psalms 127:5; 128:4; etc.).
Job 3:16 Babies that die before birth are called "infants" that never saw light. This is exactly like babies that are aborted. This word (Heb. OLEL) always and without exception refers to human individuals (cf. Hosea 13:16; Psalm 8:2; Joel 2:16).
Numbers 12:12; Luke 1:43 In Numbers 12:12, Moses describes "one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb." If a baby dies before it is born -- as in an abortion -- the woman who conceived it is still a "mother."
In Luke 1:43, Elizabeth addressed Mary as "the mother of my Lord" before Jesus was born.
The word "mother" (Heb. EM; Greek METER), in contexts referring to physical human reproduction, always refers to one who has procreated or formed another human individual, a separate and distinct individual from the mother herself (see Num. 6:7; Gen. 3:20; Luke 1:60). A woman who has conceived, even if the child is not yet born and even if it dies before birth, is a "mother."
Luke 1:41,44 Elizabeth conceived (v. 24), and the life "in her womb" is called a "babe" or "baby" (Greek BREPHOS). This is the second-most-common New Testament word for a baby. It is always used for that which is a human individual separate and distinct from its mother (see Luke 2:12,16; Acts 7:19.)
Luke 1:36 Again, the life conceived in Elizabeth's womb, before it was born, is called "a son." The word "son" (Greek HUIOS), in contexts that refer to the physical offspring of humans, always refers to that which is a human individual separate and distinct as an individual from its parents. It is the most common New Testament word for a "son" (see Matt. 1:21,23,25; Luke 1:13,31; 2:7; etc.)

The unborn life in the mother's womb is a human individual from conception on. How should we treat this unborn life, and may we deliberately kill it? Surely we must be guided by exactly the same rules or principles we should follow in our treatment of any other "child" or "baby."
2008-05-09 06:33:52

Little Lilly: I'm against abortions for the sake of connivance

if you did want the kid don't have the sex

I'm not talking about rape or other forced sex
I mean kids that get them because they just don't want the child
2008-05-09 06:35:56