Are you Pro-life or Pro-choice?

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Kasz216 said:

superchunk said:
For those of you who say a person is not alive until they are physically born. That is just ignorant. A doctor can get a fetus to react to stimulus in as little as a few weeks after conception. That alone proves the fetus is alive. It is breathing in the liquids around it, eating, excrementing, reacting, and thinking. All signs of life.

 

See my above post about the brain dead man. You are the one who is ignorant on that point. It isn't reacting to anything. It's a reflex. The same kind of reflex a brain dead person's body reacts to. It takes over two months for a Fetus to actually has any sort of readable brain activity. Up till then it's about as alive a house plant. Alive but not human or even animal level of alive.

Actually we are not that different in opinion. When a said a few weeks, I mean like 4-6 or so. I will have to search for the report I was paraphrasing. It said that doctors could get recognizable reactions and brain activity  during this time. You state 2 months I state 4 or 6 weeks. Essentially the same thing. What's a week or two anyways. We know that the brain begins development by week 3. So I would think that by week 5 it is functioning. There are many types of organisms on this planet that only react to stimilus, yet by definition they are alive. So, to would this 6 week old fetus meet that same criteria.

Source on Fetal brain 

My point was more along the lines that life does not begin at birth, but very early on in the development of the fetus.