Abortion: Can someone explain?

Question

Can someone explain to me how an unborn at any stage of development is not a legal person?
Black's Law Dictionary, Standard 9th edition, 'Person: A human being.'

Nealis v. Baird, 996 P.2d 438, 453 (Okla. 1999) “Contemporary scientific precepts accept as a given that a human life begins at conception.” (citing KEITH L. MOORE & T.V.N. PERSAUD, THE DEVELOPING HUMAN 14 (5th ed. 1993); SUSAN TUCKER BLACKBURN & DONNA LEE LOPER, MATERNAL, FETAL AND NEONATAL PHYSIOLOGY: A CLINICAL PERSPECTIVE 49 (1992); MICHAEL R. HARRISON ET AL., THE UNBORN PATIENT: PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT 14 (1984); DALE RUSSELL DUNNIHOO, M.D., PH.D., FUNDAMENTALS OF GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS 286–99 (1990)

"an unborn child is a human being from conception is “supported by standard textbooks on embryology or human biology”
T.W. SADLER, LANGMAN’S MEDICAL EMBRYOLOGY (John N. Gardner ed., 6th ed. 1990.

"The exact moment of the beginning of personhood and of the human body is at the moment of conception."
M. Allen et. al., "The Limits of Viability." New England Journal of Medicine. 11/25/93: Vol. 329, No. 22, p. 1597.

"Physicians, biologists, and other scientists agree that conception marks the beginning of the life of a human being—a being that is alive and is a member of the human species. There is overwhelming agreement on this point in countless medical, biological, and scientific writings." John C. Fletcher, Mark I. Evans, "Maternal Bonding in Early Fetal Ultrasound Examinations," New England Journal of Medicine, February 17, 1983.

"Not only is it a life, but, by its intrinsic biological nature, it is a human life from the moment of conception, for “it can be nothing else.”
E. BLECHSCHMIDT, THE BEGINNING OF HUMAN LIFE,]16–17

" A zygote is the beginning of a new human being. Human development begins at fertilization, the process during which a male gamete or sperm ... unites with a female gamete or oocyte ... to form a single cell called a zygote. This highly specialized, totipotent cell marks the beginning of each of us as a unique individual." Keith L. Moore, Ph.D. & T.V.N. Persaud, Md., The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 6th ed.(Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1998), 2-18.



T.W. SADLER, LANGMAN’S MEDICAL EMBRYOLOGY (John N. Gardner ed., 6th ed. (1990): "the proposition that an unborn child is a human being from conception is “supported by standard textbooks on embryology or human biology"

(“Contemporary scientific precepts accept as a given that a human being's life begins at conception.”
KEITH L. MOORE & T.V.N. PERSAUD, THE DEVELOPING HUMAN 14 (5th ed. 1993)
SUSAN TUCKER BLACKBURN & DONNA LEE LOPER, MATERNAL, FETAL AND NEONATAL PHYSIOLOGY: A CLINICAL PERSPECTIVE 49 (1992)
MICHAEL R. HARRISON ET AL., THE UNBORN PATIENT: PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT 14 (1984)
DALE RUSSELL DUNNIHOO, M.D., PH.D., FUNDAMENTALS OF GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS 286–99 (1990)

E.L. Potter and J.M. Craig, PATHOLOGY OF THE FETUS AND THE INFANT, 3d ed. (Chicago: Year Book Medical Publishers, 1975), vii. "Every time a sperm cell and ovum unite a new human being is created which is alive and will continue to live unless its death is brought about by some specific condition."

M. Allen et. al., "The Limits of Viability." New England Journal of Medicine. 11/25/93: Vol. 329, No. 22, p. 1597 "The exact moment of the beginning of personhood and of the human body is at the moment of conception."

John C. Fletcher, Mark I. Evans, "Maternal Bonding in Early Fetal Ultrasound Examinations," [I]New England Journal of Medicine[/I], February 17, 1983."Physicians, biologists, and other scientists agree that conception marks the beginning of the life of a human being—a being that is alive and is a member of the human species. There is overwhelming agreement on this point in countless medical, biological, and scientific writings."

E. BLECHSCHMIDT, THE BEGINNING OF HUMAN LIFE 16–17 (1977) "Not only is it a life, but, “by its intrinsic biological nature,” it is a human life from the moment of conception, for “it can be nothing else."

Carlson, Bruce M. Patten, Foundations of Embryology. 6th edition. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996, p. 3); "Almost all higher animals start their lives from a single cell, the fertilized ovum (zygote)... The time of fertilization represents the starting point in the life history, or ontogeny, as an individual member of that species."

Keith L. Moore and T.V.N. Persaud, The developing Human 6th ed 2;" :Zygote: this cell results from the union of an oocyte and a sperm. A zygote is the beginning of a new human being (i.e., an embryo). "

Answer 1

It appears that the question of the beginning of life needs to be clearly defined, which it is not.

Answer 2

through legality you are right because it is a person but I believe a woman has the right to decide under certain instances if they want an abortion. Many women are guaranteed to die if they give birth and that is a good reason to me along with being raped. The problem with that is you can't separate those instances from all the other cases. If abortion was illegal except for those who had the circumstances listed above then women who wanted it would falsely claim rape causing a wrongful death and a man would most likely wrongfully go to prison for it. I take it that you believe under no circumstance should a woman have an abortion and that's fine and a good moral value. I would love it if every woman would just accept their child but hell I also wish women wouldn't die given birth or ever get raped

Answer 3

What if it's just human nature for some mothers to not want their child? If that was true, then we'd have to consider that we are not this highly evolved, pre-ordained vehicle of the almighty. This would make us no better than a lion king which kills the offspring of a lioness in order to preserve his status. It would make us animals, something people may not want to admit. I would like to think we are something more, but maybe it's a slow process in getting everyone else to figure that out.

Answer 4

Different laws treat the definition differently. A fertilized egg is the potential for life. Not every one will develop into a person even without outside intervention. That's what a miscarriage is.

Answer 5

Because it is inside of the body of a legal person.

It needs their body to sustain itself, and uses their body for protection from the outside world.



To say it was a legal person with a right to life would be then granting it a right to a person's body.

This is a right that no person has.

Not even to sustain life.



Not even the Red Cross can force you to give blood to save a life, and they can't send you to prison for murder if you don't give.

Hospitals can't even take organs from a dead body for donation unless that person consented during life.



So why would we give a mere fetus a right that no one has?

A right that would allow them to stay inside of a person's body for nine months, to risk their health, their welfare, their ability to care for their responsibilities, their job, and even their life?



Being living isn't being a person.

Until one can sustain themselves without forcing themselves onto another person without their consent, one is not a person.

Answer 6

Simply put, liberals think they ought to be able to fvck like rabbits without the consequence of that pesky baby thing coming up. Therefore, they ought to be able to just legally kill the baby at will. And they've had their wish since 1973.

Answer 7

There's a difference between medicine and the law. Your team lost, and America won.