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Originally Posted by Themaniacster
To answer this question, you need to know wether the fetus is alive and human.
Not whether some person considers it alive.
But whether it is alive, by definition. Since a fetus has cells and DNA, does breath, uses energy, and every other thing that makes it definably alive does exist in a fetus.
Now is a fetus Human?
A fetus has Human DNA, making it Human.
Therefor since a fetus is alive and human, it does have the right to live by our constitution.
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why are those things you said suddenly the criteria for life? There are many life forms which don't breath, many that don't even have a respiratory system. It uses energy, but so does a car, is a car alive? I'd like you to think a lot harder about how we qualify life. You'll come to realize there is no scientific definition possible, and that the distinction itself is a false dichotomy. Life is just a pattern repeating itself of a select few combinations of atoms, though the combination is never the exact same from creature to creature of species to species. Not all life can think or contains a nervous system. Things other than life consume and combust energy, are even born and die. These things are still not life. So come up with a working definition for life first and then lets talk.