Well I have had one busy weekend, but I said I was going to blog this weekend so I'm going to do it. Abortion and Stem Cells is the easiest to do so I'll start with that. Abortion in particular is easy. Everyone agrees that killing a baby is wrong. If you stabbed a 6th month old infant in the back of the head, you would be the lowest of all humans. The question is not is it moral to kill a baby. The question is when does the embryo become life? The answer is that we simply do not know. Some claim that it doesn't happen until birth. Others claim that it is as early as conception. My personal opinion is that claiming to know when an embryo becomes life is a fundamentally arrogant task. Also, as we do not know when an embryo becomes life, we should ere on the side of caution. I would rather protect an embryo that is not life, than find out later we killed millions of babies at the very dawn of life.
Next on the scuttlebutt is stem cell research. Now, I find that most people really don't know what stem cell research is so I will explain the gist in English. So you have a man and a woman sleeping with each other for awhile and they wonder why the woman can't get pregnant. They go to a doctor, and to doctor takes around 10 eggs from the woman and sperm from the man. Out of the 10 eggs, 3 just don't work, and 7 are suitable. The couple picks one egg to be their new baby. The other 6 are stored in a freezer and will be thrown away in time. Now people that support stem cell research say that we should use these embryos to help people who need new organs. People against it say that they should be protected. Now on one hand, if you are going to throw them away you might as well get some use out of it. On the other, that just doesn't feel right.
If you wanna use a heartbeat as an indication of life, it's present by about the 5th or 6th week of pregnancy (3rd or 4th week after conception).
ReplyDeleteAnother indication of life could be brain wave activity, though I'm not sure when that starts in the pregnancy.