Why is there a debate about Abortion?

Whether you're Pro-choice or Anti-choice. Both sides agree you cannot force someone to donate their body whether you believe a foetus is a human being or not. Doesn't the debate just end there?

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Your toenails are dead.


but Bob said 'any human cells'.


Well, that's essentially correct what I said. Your ignorance isn't evidence for facts. 


MY ignorance? 

 

OK, let's leave out toenails. Which other human cells result in a human life - other than a fertilized human egg?

 

What you also said previously is that 'sperm contains all that is necessary for life' {paraphrased}.

 

I would say that statement shows a tad of  ignorance too - unless of couse you know something science does not. Putting it bluntly, fill up a 44-gallon drum with human sperm - what human life results? Like it not Bob, we need those woman out there and it's about time you realised / admitted it.

 

 


Your argument is a bunch of cells is a human, {no, I said an embryo is a human - you called it a bunch of cells} so I used that same argument back against you. Human cells can also make a potential human. Therefore you're causing abortions everytime you wash or sneeze.

 

I think your parents failed you Bob - sneezing on a lady does not make them pregnant, nor does kissing them - I think there is more to it than that. 

 

 

So you're admit that women are important. I agree. Therefore don't you think they deserve the right to do what they want with their body?

 

Women have every right to do what they want with their body - as long as it's ONLY their body that we are talking about. eg a woman has the right to blow themselves up if that's what they wish, but they don't have the right to take anyone else with them - that would be called murder or even mass murder. You may have read about a few of those suicide bombers - admittedly mostly men but some women to?


 


So you agree with me that an Embryo is a bunch of cells but you call it a "human". By that reasoning, other bunch of human cells are also humans because you can make a human from those. Do you not get I'm using your own arguments against you. 

 

So let me use the same argument as OP. Do you agree with me it's wrong to force anyone to donate their body part to someone else? 



 Bob:"an Embryo is a bunch of cells but you call it a "human". By that reasoning, other bunch of human cells are also humans because you can make a human from those".

 

Once again, what other human cells can you make a human out of except that bunch of cells represented by a fertilized human egg. You are talking in circles.

 

"donate their body parts to someone else" - that would be after you're dead I presume? No, it's done all the time, but there is no force involved - well, except in China maybe.


Before I explain it again how your reasoning fails. Do you first accept that if a cell(not fertilized human egg) can be used to create a human being, killing that cell is not the same as killing a human?

 

Let me spell it out to you again. Do you think you can force a mum or dad to donate one of their kidney to their child if they needed one? Obviously they're still alive. 

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

@polksaladallie wrote:

 

"donate their body parts to someone else" - that would be after you're dead I presume? No, it's done all the time, but there is no force involved -

 

Not really after you're dead.  Too late then.  Brain dead perhaps.

 

So, they take your organs away before you are dead? I didn't know that. Cross me off the donar registry please.


I would think that everybody knows that.

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@the_bob_delusion wrote:

@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

@the_bob_delusion wrote:

@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

@the_bob_delusion wrote:

@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

@the_bob_delusion wrote:

@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

@polksaladallie wrote:

Your toenails are dead.


but Bob said 'any human cells'.


Well, that's essentially correct what I said. Your ignorance isn't evidence for facts. 


MY ignorance? 

 

OK, let's leave out toenails. Which other human cells result in a human life - other than a fertilized human egg?

 

What you also said previously is that 'sperm contains all that is necessary for life' {paraphrased}.

 

I would say that statement shows a tad of  ignorance too - unless of couse you know something science does not. Putting it bluntly, fill up a 44-gallon drum with human sperm - what human life results? Like it not Bob, we need those woman out there and it's about time you realised / admitted it.

 

 


Your argument is a bunch of cells is a human, {no, I said an embryo is a human - you called it a bunch of cells} so I used that same argument back against you. Human cells can also make a potential human. Therefore you're causing abortions everytime you wash or sneeze.

 

I think your parents failed you Bob - sneezing on a lady does not make them pregnant, nor does kissing them - I think there is more to it than that. 

 

 

So you're admit that women are important. I agree. Therefore don't you think they deserve the right to do what they want with their body?

 

Women have every right to do what they want with their body - as long as it's ONLY their body that we are talking about. eg a woman has the right to blow themselves up if that's what they wish, but they don't have the right to take anyone else with them - that would be called murder or even mass murder. You may have read about a few of those suicide bombers - admittedly mostly men but some women to?


 


So you agree with me that an Embryo is a bunch of cells but you call it a "human". By that reasoning, other bunch of human cells are also humans because you can make a human from those. Do you not get I'm using your own arguments against you. 

 

So let me use the same argument as OP. Do you agree with me it's wrong to force anyone to donate their body part to someone else? 



 Bob:"an Embryo is a bunch of cells but you call it a "human". By that reasoning, other bunch of human cells are also humans because you can make a human from those".

 

Once again, what other human cells can you make a human out of except that bunch of cells represented by a fertilized human egg. You are talking in circles.

 

"donate their body parts to someone else" - that would be after you're dead I presume? No, it's done all the time, but there is no force involved - well, except in China maybe.


Before I explain it again how your reasoning fails. Do you first accept that if a cell(not fertilized human egg) can be used to create a human being, killing that cell is not the same as killing a human?

 

Let me spell it out to you again. Do you think you can force a mum or dad to donate one of their kidney to their child if they needed one? Obviously they're still alive. 


"Do you first accept that if a cell(not fertilized human egg) can be used to create a human being"

 

- so, now we are talking about a non-fertilized egg? Like the millions billions that go unfertilized every year?

 

"Let me spell it out to you again. Do you think you can force a mum or dad to donate one of their kidney to their child if they needed one?"

 

 

- No, you cannot force anyone to give away a kidney - BUT, in MOST CASES if a child needed a kidney to survive, MOST PARENTS would be falling over themselves to give that child a kidney - providing there is a match of course.

 

- I cannot see where you are going with this. Are you saying that giving away a kidney to a child in need is the same as 'giving away' a uterus?  If so, please try to understand that a mother doesn't 'give away' her uterus to have a child, it's only rented for 40 weeks. Believe it or not, some women have more than one child, so it's not as if they only get one crack at it. With a kidnet, you do only get one crack at it, well two if you count the one after you're dead.

 

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@polksaladallie wrote:

@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

@polksaladallie wrote:

 

"donate their body parts to someone else" - that would be after you're dead I presume? No, it's done all the time, but there is no force involved -

 

Not really after you're dead.  Too late then.  Brain dead perhaps.

 

So, they take your organs away before you are dead? I didn't know that. Cross me off the donar registry please.


I would think that everybody knows that.


I would have thought that removing a heart from a donor to transplant into another human would INDEED render the donor DEAD? But, maybe I'm wrong.

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

@polksaladallie wrote:

@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

@polksaladallie wrote:

 

"donate their body parts to someone else" - that would be after you're dead I presume? No, it's done all the time, but there is no force involved -

 

Not really after you're dead.  Too late then.  Brain dead perhaps.

 

So, they take your organs away before you are dead? I didn't know that. Cross me off the donar registry please.


I would think that everybody knows that.


I would have thought that removing a heart from a donor to transplant into another human would INDEED render the donor DEAD? But, maybe I'm wrong.


But you said before.  They are not dead until the process begins.

 

Aside from that, hearts are removed during a transplant op, and the pt does not die while waiting for the new one.

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

@polksaladallie wrote:

@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

@polksaladallie wrote:

 

"donate their body parts to someone else" - that would be after you're dead I presume? No, it's done all the time, but there is no force involved -

 

Not really after you're dead.  Too late then.  Brain dead perhaps.

 

So, they take your organs away before you are dead? I didn't know that. Cross me off the donar registry please.


I would think that everybody knows that.


I would have thought that removing a heart from a donor to transplant into another human would INDEED render the donor DEAD? But, maybe I'm wrong.


Try to read and comprehend before jumping in for the next bout. There is a difference between before and after.  Before the heart was removed the person was alive, although they may have been classed as brain dead.

 

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from NHS site:

 

"Organ donations come from people whose death has been confirmed while on a ventilator in a hospital intensive care unit (donation after brain stem death) or from people whose heart has stopped beating (donation after circulatory death).

 

But, what do I know.

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Mayo clinic: re organ donation.

 

"Although it's a popular topic in the tabloids, in reality, people don't start to wiggle their toes after they're declared dead. In fact, people who have agreed to organ donation are given more tests (at no charge to their families) to determine that they're truly dead than are those who haven't agreed to organ donation."

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Donation after cardiac death (DCD) involves surgeons taking organs within minutes of the cessation of respirators and other forms of life support for patients who still have at least some brain activity. DCD had been the norm for organ donors before 'brain death' became the standard in the early 1970s. Since then, most donors have been brain-dead.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting

 

In order to harvest an organ immediately after the heart has stopped beating, the surgeons would have to be at the bedside in an operating theatre.  That scenario would not happen, unless the pt was someone with no relatives, and they were prepared to wait, and wait, and wait.  Not possible.

 

Even then, they would continue with a respirator.

 

 

 

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of course wiki would know more about it than either NHS or Mayo clinic. In any case, if you are going to quote bits out of the article - why not quote the other bits:

 

"most countries require that the source is legally dead for organ transplantation purposes (e.g. cardiac or brain dead) or a voluntary healthy adult for the donation of some organs. Organs cannot be harvested after the heart has stopped beating for long time. Thus, a brain dead donor is preferred, but only a small percentage of deaths are brain deaths. Therefore, the majority of human organ sources are post cardiac death."

 

 

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