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Originally Posted by libertarian123
But then you're just deciding when you think life begins. The supreme court decided that life begins once you are delivered from the womb so that's when human rights begins and that's when you are considered a living human being
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Actually, the Supreme Court said that a fetus had rights once it reached "viability." That is why Roe v. Wade pretty much just applies to the first trimester.
In terms of my view of when life begins, I look at it logically (and as is the root of our system) with any errors being to the side of protecting life. The only non-arbitrary point at which to decide a human life begins is at the moment of fertilization. At that point a unique set of complete human DNA is formed. Before that point, there is no way you could view the haploid DNA as complete human life.
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
— Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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