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Re:US police use digital data to prosecute abortions by timbit42 on Saturday January 28, 2023 @05:44PM (#34562807)
I get a kick out of Evangelicals trying to determine when life begins. The entire process is life. If any part of procreation wasn't life, then it would fail.

For an atheist, it's all life so ending the process at any point is technically death. Every sperm is sacred, so to speak.

For a Jew or Christian though, the Bible doesn't consider the unborn to be human until they are birthed. Instead they are considered potentially human. Since it is not human, killing it isn't considered murder.

Evangelicals wrongly believe their Bible considers the unborn to be human, thus their anti-abortion stance. If you look back to the 1960's, Evangelicals were not anti-abortion. That changed in the 1970's and here we are today.

Re:US police use digital data to prosecute abortions by 29athrowaway on Saturday January 28, 2023 @07:15PM (#34563433)
What marks the beginning of the individual organism is the fertilization of the egg, forming the zygote. Before that you have separate gametes.
Re:US police use digital data to prosecute abortions by josephcsible on Saturday January 28, 2023 @07:21PM (#34563476)
> the Bible doesn't consider the unborn to be human until they are birthed.

This isn't true.