| ManusJustus said: Everything anyone suggests here is an opinion. My opinion is that life begins when you become self-aware. For human children, that would be sometime in late pregnancy. That also applies to living humans, as it is socially acceptable to pull the plug on non-aware humans in vegetative states who have no chance of coming out. |
That is a great point. However, the one glaring difference is quality of life and potential to never re-awake. A fetus after about the 7th week is much more active than a person in a vegitative state. On top of that the fetus has the full expectation at that point of a long healthy, active life. The only difference is that it is physically unable to say "Hey stop, I don't want to die now!".
Where as a veggie is generally agreed to be without any real chance of living 'normally' and is essentially dead already.
Now, I am not writing this a pro/agains abortion, just answering the question of defining the beginning of life.
