Everything which lives has a life span, each one is different. Average life span for an American person is 78 years.

The government defines homicide/murder, and it has defined abortion as not homicide/murder. Abortion does not affect society as a whole, so it should not be subject to government regulation. Of course egotistical legislators believe EVERYTHING is subject to regulation by their superior wisdom.

Of what benefit would it be for government to ban abortion? It tried that for over a hundred years to no effect.

So which twin is the one who had the life in the beginning? can you answer that?

No one can.

That's the point.

Murder/homicide are illegal because they cause chaos in society. Order in society is a measurable benefit. An orderly society has rules to maintain order. A secular society has rules to maintain order, but NO rules declaring right and wrong. A secular government has no obligation to enforce one sect's particular views of morality.

In order to be effective, a law must have a consensus in society. We have seen what happens when prohibition outlawed alcoholic beverages and fuel-saving speed laws were passed.

How does abortion effect order in society?

Well, if you mean "beginning" to mean when there was a single fertilized cell, I guess it could be either identical twin.

But, if one is to believe that there are two lives demonstrated by a single fertilized cell, why stop at just two lives? Why should there not be an almost unlimited number of lives demonstrated by a single fertilized cell since each cell that exists in a blastocyst after successive cell divisions occur from that single fertilized cell can each potentially develop into separate fetuses if given the proper environment...at least up until cell differentiation begins to occur?

(In fact, if individual cells are removed from a blastocyst and implanted into another host they all too can potentially become separate viable fetuses. And, given this fact, why should it not be "murder" if any single cell in a blastocyst is deliberately removed from the blastocyst and killed?)

After there are 7 successful cell divisions of a fertilized egg there are 128 cells contained in a blastocyst. And after there are 8 successful cell divisions of a fertilized egg there are 256 cells contained in a blastocyst. And, each and every one of these cells can arguably be individually removed from the blastocyst and implanted into another host so that they can develop into separate fetuses. So, given this fact, would there be 128 (or 256) lives demonstrated by a single fertilized egg?

Boy I am sorry I haven't checked back until now.... So much error so little time to correct it. I'll just have to start where I can.

ok grannie,

Zefs are not babies

They are zygotes/embryoes/fetuses.

If zefs are not human, what exactly are they? rocks? birds flowers?

Obviously not, they are HUMAN zygotes/embryos/fetus.

It is amazing that the pro-choice group pretends to be so grounded in science, yet they somehow believe that a human fetus is somehow something completely different until some arbitrary time (first tri-mester, after birth, once its viable, etc) when it is declared human.

Garysher

Why not?

If government can enforce what you drink, what you wear and where you can park your car, why shouldn't it want to protect the lives of unborn babies?


Exactly. In fact it is the primary responsibility of a government to protect the lives of its citizens.