Originally posted by dilloduck
aj -I understand that you claim there is no life in a fetus until it is outside the womb. I disagree but will allow your point to stand temporarily.
Look there is no way for anyone to know if there is a real thing called a human soul or human life just because we are able to think and reason. I am just starting from a point of view not my own. The concept of such an entity is derived solely from the Bible and before this book was written there had been no concept of any such thing as a soul or human life above other life forms.
Why is it only the womans choice to abort this "vessel" that COULD become life if taken to term? This "vessel" never occurs in a woman without the cooperation from a mans sperm . What you are saying is that women should be the sole decision maker when it comes to which vessel "gets life breathed into it". In other words, women would have total control over the population of America.
First the woman is in total possession of said 'vessel' even though made with the contribution, even if small, from the man. The vessel is formed by a very long series of events that if only one of the multiple trillions of cascading events is flawed, a non-human (stillborn) results. That 'vessel' is forming solely because there is an umbillical cord that nourishes the forming cells differentiating into different tissues. Finally, in actuality all forming 'vessels' start out as female and only after about a week and one-half does the Y chromosome begin to cause the production of testerone (for one) which starts the alternate formation of male traits and organs which becomes a male.
As long as this 'vessel' or shell is forming, the one in possession of same has the sole deciding vote of whether she wants the fetus to become life or not. The man is much like the donation giver as every time a male ejaculates more than 300,000,000 million sperm is given off. Only one or two at the most is the winner of the swim. The woman is the one who has the decision making process of that which is growing in her.
Others of us disagree and cite a mans right to have a decision in this matter too as he gets half the credit for the "vessel" even existing. You would deny this choice to a man. Why? (I assume you are against Scott Peterson being charged with a double murder as he only allegedly killed a vessel.)
Scott Peterson has not been found guilty of killing anyone as yet therefore it is similar to your opinion as to who has the right to decide on whether or not a fetus comes out of a world in which they were forming, like pods, and into the world where they take their first breaths.
Possession is 2/3rds of the law.
