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Originally posted by mr. soprano:
infanticide...whatever. well obviously we must be getting different opinions from different scientists becase from what i've read and heard, they do not state life starting at conception. also to go off and say that killing a cell is wrong, so i guess that goes for ever time you scrach your arm, you are killing living breathing cells my friend...cells that do produce other cells. or hey, while we are at it, when you cut your hair.
Funny, because every course, lecture, etc. I've ever taken has stated that the basic element of life revolves around cellular respiration.

I didn't say killing a cell was wrong - however, killing an organism, in this case, an innocent child, is abhorrent. A cell is just a part that makes up a whole. The zygote that divides eventually into the fetus carries out all life functions, is sentient, and is living.

Cutting your hair isn't killing living cells, since not only are the top layers of your epidermis (skin) dead cells that slough off normally, but your hair, fingernails, etc. are all dead, so your argument is invalid.

It doesn't take an idiot to realize that there is a living organism created at conception. The problem is that many rationalize it as something that either isn't alive until birth (which is fundamentally wrong), or various other arguments that rationalize the legalized infanticide of innocent lives.