EmilyD wrote:
Taking life away from a human being is not authorized by God for man. God gives us life, and He takes it away. No man has the "right" to supersede God. Ever. For any reason. Apparently, you who do not have faith in God seem to think taking on this decision to end a life is okay for you to rationalize by stating reason after reason why it should be okay to kill another human being. But for every single reason you give, the one thing that remains, that you want to "forget" is that the baby should not be held responsible for the adults' actions. The price of a life should never be for inconvenience, rape, incest or anything except danger to the mother's life. And I question even that as an excuse to kill a baby with its whole life ahead of it.
And in my opinion, it's just a matter of time before science and technology make it possible to see without doubt that life begins at the time of conception - fertilization. We're almost there...so far, this is what scientists are seeing now: During the first 24 hours, once the sperm and egg bind to each other, the membranes of these two cells fuse, creating in less than a second a single hybrid cell: the zygote, or one-cell embryo. To protect his or her bodily integrity, within minutes the zygote initiates changes in its ionic composition, releasing zinc in a spark that induces βegg activation,β first modifying the surrounding zona pellucida blocking further sperm binding to the cell surface. Cooperation between sperm and egg components to achieve replication of DNA, cell division, and growth occurs as maternally (mother) and paternally (father) derived factors in the zygote begin interacting with and chemically modifying each other to initiate the final round of meiotic division in the maternally derived nucleus to enable DNA replication.
That is within 24 hours of fertilization....but they're looking at even those 24 hours in an effort to see deeper into the cells and their immediate activity upon that fertilization. It won't be long before this argument about when life begins will be settled by science.
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It will only be settled for each individual according to their beliefs. For me its when the zinc spark happens (observable under a microscope). This is called the spark of life. Good enough for me. When the soul enters the body is another matter entirely and I won't go into that here.