I believe and maybe it is just me ( a personal bias) but I do believe, sheltered in the biological wisdom of our mother's body, that we are granted these from conception.
It is rigid and dangerous to compare a living breathing human being to a potential human being, a collection of cells, and give that group of cells the same rights as a woman. People are legislating their rigid belief systems and hurting women, especially poor women.
Is "potential human being" a human being? If not, then why not - because it can be aborted or the process interrupted in some other abnormal way?
This is something I wrote elsewhere for some other discussion, see if you disagree:
"Let's define "natural" as something that occurs in nature, and in this context "normal" as that which, if left alone, progresses to a certain outcome, naturally.
A sperm or an egg left by themselves progress nowhere and that is normal and natural.
A fertilized egg is another story altogether. If left alone in its natural state it normally progresses to become a person. If that progress is interrupted, either naturally or unnaturally, that is abnormal as the interruption destroys this new entity and regardless of whether it can feel or has consciousness or what not, it will never change the fact that a potential human being is no more."
When we study embryology intensively we find extremely high levels of organization in a fertilized egg. Every part of the “clump of cells” involved in an elegant, elaborate process. Yet another elaborate and elegant process unfolds between the developing human embryo and the body of the mother. This magnificent process is something all humans need to be educated about. To fail to understand this is to fail to understand our lives.
From the moment we are born... NOT at conception.
I believe and maybe it is just me ( a personal bias) but I do believe, sheltered in the biological wisdom of our mother's body, that we are granted these from conception.
It is rigid and dangerous to compare a living breathing human being to a potential human being, a collection of cells, and give that group of cells the same rights as a woman. People are legislating their rigid belief systems and hurting women, especially poor women.
Is "potential human being" a human being? If not, then why not - because it can be aborted or the process interrupted in some other abnormal way?
This is something I wrote elsewhere for some other discussion, see if you disagree:
"Let's define "natural" as something that occurs in nature, and in this context "normal" as that which, if left alone, progresses to a certain outcome, naturally.
A sperm or an egg left by themselves progress nowhere and that is normal and natural.
A fertilized egg is another story altogether. If left alone in its natural state it normally progresses to become a person. If that progress is interrupted, either naturally or unnaturally, that is abnormal as the interruption destroys this new entity and regardless of whether it can feel or has consciousness or what not, it will never change the fact that a potential human being is no more."
When we study embryology intensively we find extremely high levels of organization in a fertilized egg. Every part of the “clump of cells” involved in an elegant, elaborate process. Yet another elaborate and elegant process unfolds between the developing human embryo and the body of the mother. This magnificent process is something all humans need to be educated about. To fail to understand this is to fail to understand our lives.
Really? Your argument is leave natural and normal alone?
How interesting.