Rath on 19 May 2009
| luinil said: Rath said: The word 'a' implies indepedence, I believe that it is 'life' not 'a life' because it is entirely dependent on its mother. To throw my hat into the semantics ring, isn't a child still fully dependent on others since it cannot work or even take care of itself without someone else intervening? Does that make a child not "a life" but "life"? (mostly a joke, but your reasoning begs this question) |
Its far less dependent than it is while in the womb =P
I consider full dependence to stop at the point where a fetus can be born and breath on its own, I think just after 20 weeks is the earliest ever case of this?
