Quote Originally Posted by Chronic Chrissy
There is life in everything, we do consume life everyday. I won't cut a tree down if it is not needed, nor will I pull up carrots or onions from my garden if I don't intend on using them. Plant have just as much determination to survive as any other living things using every last resource to protect it's existance of itself and the extention of it's life through procreating. This theory alone is what brings us all here by smoking a plant that has given it's every bit of energy for the best oppertunity to reproduce while we deprive it of the chance.

Our main goal in life is survival, survival of ourselves, and survival of our species. A tumor is an abnormal formation of cells that threaten our wellbeing, a tape worm parasite sucking our nourishment both for their own survival. A fetus may be a parasite but is what our bodies are designed to host and accomidate, a womans whole body is designed to feed and house a human fetus, and a man is designed to impregnate. The reason we eat, breathe, excrete toxins, is to survive to make a new human to make a new human to ensure survival. That is the difference between a fetus and forgien parasite that is designed to feed off the life supply of other creatures.

Abortion is wrong because the fetus has a will to live and survive and in the event of an emergency the mothers body will sacrifice itself too save the baby with more determination than it would to save its own even if the curupt mind would like to choose otherwise.

"Life is a condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally. A diverse array of living organisms can be found in the biosphere on Earth. Properties common to these organisms â?? plants, animals, fungi, protists, archaea and bacteria â?? are a carbon and water-based cellular form with complex organization and genetic information. They undergo metabolism, possess a capacity to grow, respond to stimuli, reproduce and, through natural selection, adapt to their environment in successive generations.

An entity with the above properties is considered to be a living organism, that is an organism that is alive hence can be called a life form. However, not every definition of life considers all of these properties to be essential. For example, the capacity for descent with modification is often taken as the only essential property of life. This definition notably includes viruses, which do not qualify under narrower definitions as they are acellular and do not metabolise. Broader definitions of life may also include theoretical non-carbon-based life and other alternative biology."

There is you definition for life and a Fetus meets every critiria. They have fat stores to use, aa well as an attached plecenta to demonstarte motabolism, They can grow and develope, Respond to outside stimuli, and have the essential organs to reproduce(you could take an egg from a fetus and sperm from another fetus and create an embryo.

Outside of that definition I believe that an organism has life if it has the strive to fight and hold on to the energy which keeps it moving. A person in a vegitative state is dead by my standards, but a fetus is very much a life.
That was beautifully said, chrissy.

I'm anti-abortion except if there is a risk to mother or child (probably the only view I have that can be called conservative)....It makes me very sad that young teenage girls can get pregnant and then just have their baby killed so they don't have to deal with it. If you don't have the means to raise it, give birth to it then give it up for adoption so it can have a good life.

What is this pro-choice bullshit? This is not an issue about womens' bodies, because when women become pregnant, they are not dealing with their own body...they are dealing also with what will become a human being, and in fact is a human being, just not outside the womb yet. This is the exact reason that in the middle ages, a pregnant woman could not be executed. See, even in the fucking middle ages they respected unborn children enough for that!