tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391906.post7490199500996512872..comments2023-10-25T02:18:43.690-07:00Comments on Contend Earnestly: Is Abortion Sin?Seth McBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765679934165890595noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391906.post-3267448447228795292008-10-17T11:10:00.000-07:002008-10-17T11:10:00.000-07:00We had a discussion about this in Psych 101 many y...We had a discussion about this in Psych 101 many years ago. Our professor worked the problem backwards by asking this question:<BR/><BR/>When do you consider a person dead, when their heart dies or when they're brain dead?<BR/><BR/>So using the question above, if one is alive with only one of the organs, then the same person must consider the fetus alive when the heart or brain is alive.<BR/><BR/>After much debate, our professor indicated that both the heart and brain are developing and functioning within the first two weeks after conception. It's entirely possible for two weeks to pass before a woman relaizes she might be preganant. Then more time passes before carrying out the abortion. For the non-Christian, at that point abortion would be murder according to the person's belief of when they consider someone dead.<BR/><BR/>I looked it up again and found that the heart and brain develop between weeks one and four:<BR/>http://www.pregnancy.org/pregnancy/fetaldevelopment1.php#week1<BR/><BR/>I believe physical life begins at conception. But for the non-believer, the fetus develops so quickly that it doesn't give a woman much time to terminate the fetus before life forms.<BR/><BR/>God is truly amazing!Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15247931388571709086noreply@blogger.com