Topic: Is a fetus a person?

[Jackie-Boy]

This has become a popular debate at my school. I really don't think a fetus is a person. If a fetus is counted as a person, then when there's a miscarriage, why isn't there a funeral?

[Thomas]

A fetus is an indeveloped human, but it is not a person until it is born.

People can say otherwise, but that was just my point, I don't speak for the whole world.

EDIT: Whoops! I was talking about embryo's! ;

[Elizabeth Rose]

Yes.  If I had a miscarriage, there would be some sort of a funeral.  Feti are people too.

[Rachy]

I'm with Liz, it's a person.  I don't know if I would have a funeral as such, but I would still be in mourning the same as if the baby had actually been born.  Doesn't matter if it is born or not...it's a baby, it's your own flesh and blood and it's there because it's meant to be there, it's meant to be born, it's a HUMAN baby.

[Fink]

They do have funerals. My aunt had a miscarraige, and there was a funeral for it. So yes, im my opinion, it is a person.

[Scilla]

Yes, it is. I have an aunt who had a miscarrage, there was a funeral and he has a grave stone.

[Rocko]

The way I see it, a fetus is only a person if it can survive with machines, which is like 26 weeks, I think.

[Now that were men]

Is it true if some one murders some one pregant it ccounts as to murders?  If so then yes, a fetus is a person.


Im shuddering thinking about it...

[Dragon Of Grief]

Of course it is... it has living cells. No matter how little something is it is a living person from the moment of conception. A human life is a human life from start to finish.

[cmonkey]

Both the funeral and the double murder law arguement are flawed.  You can have a funeral for anything, and laws are written and struck down on a daily basis.  The definition of being human is different for every person, which makes laws about it difficult.  To me, a human must be aware of its own existance to be a human.  As for whether or not a fetus is, I don't know.

[Dragon Of Grief]

Both the funeral and the double murder law arguement are flawed.  You can have a funeral for anything, and laws are written and struck down on a daily basis.  The definition of being human is different for every person, which makes laws about it difficult.  To me, a human must be aware of its own existance to be a human.  As for whether or not a fetus is, I don't know.

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Then what about the mentally retarded, or someone who is in a state of vegetation? They do not know they are human, so according to your theory that makes THEM inhuman... am I correct?

[IZ]

I believe to be considered a human, they must be able to sustain their own life without the assistance of machines.

[Dragon Of Grief]

I believe to be considered a human, they must be able to sustain their own life without the assistance of machines.

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So then what about a diabetic? Some diabetics need dyalisis (SP?) machines... so now YOU are saying anyone that needs ANY assistance like from an oxygen machine is inhuman?

That logic is fatally flawed, Kevin :glare:

[IZ]

I believe to be considered a human, they must be able to sustain their own life without the assistance of machines.

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so now YOU are saying anyone that needs ANY assistance like from an oxygen machine is inhuman?

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If someone has no chance of surviving, and must live off of a machine that will only artificially keep them alive, then no, they aren't human, and deserve to be put out of their misery.

[Lil Loco]

they might deserve to put outta their misery, but they're still human.