At what point does a fetus become human life?

At the point of PGD, it isn't even in your body yet!!
Okay, maybe I need to explain PGD.
It's Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis. IT is when the embryoes the couple have produced using In-Vitro Fertilization are screened for genetic diseases. The healthy one is implanted into the woman's uterus and the others are destroyed. Some people have said that this is unethical because the embryoes that aren't used are destroyed, anf they believe this to be murder, but when it hasn't even been nurtured in the womb, is it really a human yet? That's what I want to know.

Yay! Only dumbf***s kill their offspring hahaha Huh using fear as a justification? i bet ya did huh. It's probably not your fault right? yea its never yer fault huh well who are you and believe me it is your problem so f***in die goodbye
i bet you did and it will never be me
yes this makes me against you
pain is fear is love is real you cant believe it but im still so proud of you piece of s***. f*** your father
(hahahahahahhahahaha laughing at idiots)
cmon hit me back with all the trash you got for me

You post a lot of dumb s***!

At the point of PGD, may I point out, the embryo only has six to eight cells and they are just bundled together, not differentiated into tissues or organs.- it has no brain, no heart, no spine

Personally i think that as soon as it starts to grow.
Alot of people would say different. But as soon as it starts to grow then a new person is being produced. Thus a new life.

That's pretty good reasoning

Such a touchy topic...which is why abortion is such a controversy. When a fetus is deemed viable and could survive outside the womb, wouldn't that make more sense for it to be considered "human"? But who am I to say? Everyone has their own belief on this topic and who can say who's right or wrong?? I think that's why it should be left up to each woman on an individual basis.

It's sad that ppl are so opinionated and judgemental b/c until you walk the path and are faced with the choices, you really DON'T know what you'd do. You'd probably be surprised at how many ppl say I could never or I would never have an abortion, and then be faced with circumstances they weren't prepared for. Not everyone who chooses abortion decide it with a carefree attitude and use it as a way out of responsibility.

You are absolutely allowed to have your own views and opinions and choices on the matter, but you aren't allowed to dictate that for anyone else other than yourself. How would you like to be told you HAVE to go thru with an abortion if you didn't want to? It's the same if you're told you HAVE to follow thru with a pregnancy you don't want. It works both ways.

The development of a fetus takes a total of 9 months from conception? Why is that? B/C it takes that long to form itself into a human being capable of living and breathing outside the womb. During pregnancy at approx. 24-26 weeks a fetus is deemed viable. B/C there is more chance it can survive outside the womb this early with medical assistance. Meaning if a woman loses the fetus before this time it is considered a miscarriage but if that happens after this time you have to register the birth AND death. Something I learned from a pregnancy book given to me when I was pg. for my firstborn.

Well being as I am pregnant right now this is an interesting topic for me. When is a fetus a viable human for me it starts at the week that I am now 16. For many different reasons, at this point in pregnancy a fetus is almost completely proportional and more importantly for me the fetus can now feel pain. Aborted at this stage the unborn would literally feel itself torn apart when they suction them out. So for me this is the week when it becomes a small human

if your just going off viability of a fetus to survive, the time that we can save the child with technology has been pushing back this date further and further. very soon that date will cooincide with conception. (within this or the next generation i estimate) the main question that this entire issue will come to VERY soon is not whether or not a mother has the ethical right to terminate their own offspring, but who it is that can make that decision and on what criteria. as a father, would i have any say in it? why? does the government have the right to make sure that a human being has the right to live if technology is able to permit it, and then who has the responsibility to raise said child? these are questions that we will have to face very soon. that who will have the choice in whether or noty our offspring are allowed to live when a womans body is taken out of the equation.

This is quite an interesting topic, and at the moment we are covering this in our ethics class at school. I think that once the foetus is born it is classified as a human life. I think this because then they are able to,in most cases, sustain life without having to rely completely on the mother. However, some Muslims believe that life begins once the foetus has been conceived, at ensoulment. Ensoulment is when their God Allah gives them a soul and so to abort at any time would be going against their God as he gave the foetus it's soul.

what are you wittling on about woman..
at 16 week gestation you baby to be is not a ball of cells



this pic is a 16 wek fetus 18 weeks pregnant..this is very human like.maybe i should post some pics on varying stages of growth so you know exactly what your dealing with here..im not against abortion..but im pretty convinced many peeps dont know much about pregnancy development

I believe a human is made when sperm meets egg and creates a zygote. As this zygote does have a unique set of genes and 46 chromosomes to make it a human being. Its a human being in an immature state but a human being nonetheless.

its when the person whose pregnant 'feels' that its a new human life. for some thats when they know they are pregnant for some at birth and all points inbetween.

now in my opinion, many people condem abortion as killing someone simply because they consider that burdon to be a living thing...the whole human race are hipocrits because everyone kills some living thing sometime in its lifetime such as a fly, animal, or even fetus. The real question that should be posed is whether this living thing has a soul or not...my opinion...one has a soul with acknowledgment of its own life, cogito ergo sum, i think therefore i am...hence a fetus (without the formation of a brain, usually under 8 weeks of conception) has no awareness of its own consciousness...