When does life begin?

Once an egg is fertilized at what point does life begin? Immediately, is what I think.

Posted By dollarware on September 8, 2007

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Life is eternal... not created with union of sperm and egg... it is carr...

Posted By artell on September 8, 2007

Eyes

Life begins at conception.

Posted By Pamela1129 on September 18, 2007

Aprilshowers

I believe that life begins at conception.

Posted By Perdie on September 19, 2007

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As soon as the egg is fertilized, it will begin the process of growing which is living.

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Life begins at conception

-- Posted By luvdemfins on June 17, 2008

I know that life begins at conception and that abortion clinics will say that it is nothing more then tissue, that is an outright lie, early on in my pregnancy I went to the Dr and he had a heartbeat and they picked her up on ultrasound she looked like a little worm but clearly you could see her and this was the day AFTER they had told me it was just tissue no form, no heartbeat nothing...Thank God I chose to leave there and be responsible for my actions.

How words are used to express a feeling or a thought is important to expressing a point and persuading that the point is irrefutable. Life does not 'begin' at conception because life is eternal. Life does not begin, and it does not die and then begin again... life is eternal. Coming into existence is not life 'beginning', it is existence beginning at conception... life is eternal... it does not begin or end.
Well then that means abortion is murder
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Aprilshowers

I believe that life begins at conception.

-- Posted By Perdie on September 19, 2007

At that point it will become a baby if we don't stop the process. Long before a baby can live outside it's mother it has a heartbeat, feels pain, and can even hiccup. Newborn babies cannot live outside the mother's womb alone and must be cared . for by others. It is 100% dependent on its mother and others to keep it alive. How can we say life starts when the baby can survive outside the mother when newborns are totally uncapable of this?

In essence, we agree. However, words mean things and have consequences. Life does not begin at conception... conception happens because life is eternal. Life does not 'begin' inside or outside the womb, but a living being came into existence inside the womb with the union of the 'living' sperm and the 'living' egg. When the living 'stuff' of sperm and egg unite, a living entity is 'created', but life is not
'created' because life is eternal.
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Obamanation

Oh for Cryout Sakes

-- Posted By qbit on March 12, 2009

It's just science..... Yes life occurs at conception.

Stop Fucking so much! Crist... You know what .. kill your own babies.. but dont expect MY tax dollars to pay for it! If we only had good role models as parents, instead of pansy ass Liberal idiots teaching the children to explore thier feeeeeelings.

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Diffent ways to live.

-- Posted By Matthew19 on October 7, 2008

Before you are born into the world you do have a heart beat. You are alive inside the womb. You may not remember it but it doesnt mean you are nonexistant. You do live as soon as the egg is fertilized.

Eyes

Life begins at conception.

-- Posted By Pamela1129 on September 18, 2007

A heartbeat is present, then there is life. .

Does life 'begin' because a heart beats, or does a heart beat because life already 'is'...? Does '*life begin* at conception' or does '*existence begin* at conception' (union of sperm & egg)? - Since the *living* egg and the *living* sperm do not *begin* living at the union of sperm & egg, it is accurate to say that the union of 2 living 'things' produce a living 'entity', NOT a new 'life'... Because life is eternal, it can not begin or end - there never was a nanosecond of time when 'life' was not... life always has been, life is, and life always will be. Only *already* living physical stuff can produce *new* living physical stuff, but 'stuff' can not produce 'stuff' unless life already 'is'. Without life that is eternal, there can not be living 'stuff' that when united can produce new living 'stuff'... Abortion (dissolution of union of sperm & egg) does not take 'life'... abortion takes 'existence' ... conception (union of sperm & egg) does not give 'life'... conception gives 'existence' because life is eternal... And, because life is eternal, abortion (death) tales only participation with life, but not life itself.
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Life is eternal... not created with union of sperm and egg... it is carried forward in a new body.

-- Posted By artell on September 8, 2007

Where is the individual, i.e., soul-spirit-body, before union of sperm and egg.. conception? Nowhere. Conception creates what did not exist but it does not create life. Where is the individual at death? Nowhere. Soul-spirit-body die, not life.

....I think that you need to explain what you are saying a little more clearly, and I think that the definition of life in YOUR book is a lot different that others.
Life is eternal - our participation in life, i.e. breathing, thinking, moving, having "being" (physicality) is not eternal. Just as Adam (the Hebrew adamah refers to earth) did not exist without a body until he existed with a body, a human entity does not exist until sperm is united with egg. Life was not 'created' by the union. The living egg and the living sperm united to form a new living being, not a new life. Life is eternal, the new being is not eternal.
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Life does not begin until the embryo/child is capable of living outside the Mother's body.

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Why don't we celebrate birthdays until we're born?

-- Posted By CharlesDarwin on April 11, 2009

This is why.

Person_60

What does not exist is created by what does exist, egg and sperm and union of the living "stuff".

-- Posted By artell on September 8, 2007

The reason a new creation is able to "live" outside the womb is it is already "alive" inside. If sperm and egg do not unite a new body does not "exist" anywhere. The "stuff" of egg and sperm are "alive" seperate and still alive united at conception.

A sneeze is 'viable' from the nanosecond it starts until it is born or it is aborted, but it is still considered a sneeze in the making - A human embryo is 'viable' from the moment of conception, or it could not proceed from stage to stage inside and outside the womb - from union of sperm and egg to cell division to exit through the birth canal to old age... it is the 'same' entity.
By Law, The embreyo (thus the developping baby) is not considered viable until it is born alive and well.
We all know that sometimes what law considers right is not moral
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