Woman Posts Pic Of 6-Week-Old Embryo To Shame Pro-Choicers, One Of Them Responds With Scientific Facts On What Makes Us Human
After the state of Alabama passed a bill recently effectively banning abortion, this raw and ongoing debate has once again come into sharp focus in American politics. If the bill becomes law it will be the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S, and make criminals of any doctor who performs the procedure, even in cases of incest and rape.
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Conservative commentator Liz Wheeler, pictured above, is a strong proponent of the law and has made it a personal mission to “expose liberal hypocrisy” when it comes to abortion. She recently tweeted the image of a six-week-old embryo alongside the words “This is “two weeks late on your period.” Two weeks late has arms & legs forming, fingers & toes, & a heartbeat!”
Wheeler’s tweet was in response to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who referred to another controversial case, Georgia’s “heartbeat bill,” when saying that “6 weeks pregnant” could equal just “2 weeks late on your period.”
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Wheeler clearly wanted to demonstrate the advanced development of the embryo, highlighting its already familiar human features to invoke a sense of ‘murder’ by terminating an embryo at this stage. Twitter user Emily M wasn’t having it, however, and replied with a reasoning more in line with accepted scientific findings.
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Other people quickly joined in, giving their own opinions on this most controversial and divisive topic, one that has settled firmly along partisan lines. Sadly, it seems that much of the rational discussion has disappeared from this debate, with Republicans overwhelmingly anti-abortion and Democrats strongly pro-choice. The result is both sides shouting at each other, with little calm, evidence-based logic emerging. Because of the heavy involvement of religious belief, as well as the definition of ‘life’ and when it begins being so subjective, it is sure to remain this way for some time to come.
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I mean, by the logic of "They have the potential to become a human" masturbation and periods are mass murder since we're "murdering" hundreds of sperm and eggs
Well periods aren't by choice exactly but yes "potential to become human" should not be something we focus on.
Pregnancy from rape isn't by choice either.
Pregnancy while on birthcontrol happens aswell
ejaculation isn't always a choice either. Just like periods, it's a bodily function that can occur without the action or consent of the person it's happening to. In colloquial terms, it's called a "wet dream" ie occurs during sleep without conscious provocation.
They weren't talking about whether or not it was by choice but by it has the potential, so if that is true just freeze all the eggs, save all the sperm, because every single one has the potential to become a human
So we are all mass murderers, even the pro-lifers. Let's see how they talk themselves out of that one...
You're right, even when a man gets a woman pregnant there are still millions of sperm cells that don't make it, each of us are walking memorials to a past mass murder.
sperm is just that.. sperm... Its like a recipe, you cant make create something if youre missing the ingredients. It takes an egg and a sperm to make a human. Once the two combine and become one, then life can develop. I hate it that women get raped and end up pregnant, but at the same time, how would you feel if you were the fetus that was developing, even tho it was in the early stages, and then have your mom just say, nope, not having it. I guess for some its easy to kill something that doesnt have a voice in the situation. Imagine how many amazing beautiful people that couldve been, that never was because of being allowed to kill your unborn child.
If I were magically the fetus, I assume my mom would have a valid reason for getting rid of me. Fetuses aren't people. They can't feel, they can't think, they aren't humans yet. And the notion of what could've been is ridiculous in this situation. You might as well say the same thing about suicide or the death penalty, "but so many amazing people might have come from that person in the future!" Possible people don't matter; what matters is the people we have right now, which includes women who've been raped and want nothing to do with the blob of cells inside them that they didn't ask for.
They can feel. Also, That fetus is a person. That fetus didn't ask to be here. We cannot create life; we have no right to take it away. It's wrong.
Isn't this what Catholics believe, hence no birth control? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzVHjg3AqIQ&ab_channel=CLoverTube
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Except when sperm and eggs are on their own, they don't have the potential to,become human life. An embryos have a fully unique genetic code.
It is not unique if you have twins.
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You should read a little bit of meiosis and mitosis before uttering such a stupid opinion.
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Logic is not that they have the potential to became human. Rather it is that embryos and fetuses are human beings, just at a different stage of development. They have complete and unique DNA, and are developing.
An acorn is an oak tree...just at a different stage of development. There are protected groves of very old oak trees in my state, destroying one could land you up to a year in jail. SO if you step on an acorn while visiting that grove of protected trees....you should go to jail, right??
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People did not like Antenor's well reasoned reply. Pro-Deather's don't like facts that stray from their narratives.
BP, I applaud you for bringing up these subjects that show how women's rights are being chipped away - right under our noses! - in even the what people were thinking to be well established democracies. It is scary to see and realise how fragile these rights are and how easily things can turn backwards, into the Middle Ages.
Emmy -- Oh yes, because Facebook is the be-all-end-all of factual news and articles! Because topics, political or otherwise, should only be discussed where YOU think they should, not in everyday life at anytime it is necessary. Because, our legislators and lawmakers only consult Facebook when deciding what they should vote on or should make into laws. SMH
Why do people like Emmy think they have the right to restrict content. No-one is forcing you to read It Emmy.
Your legislators and lawmakers also study sorcery as the Rep. Jonathan Stickland from Texas proved when he tweeted that vaccines are sorcery.
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In the Middle Ages Juririn would have had more sense.
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BP isn’t the place for political topics. Go to Facebook for that.
International Human Rights and articles within the Geneva Convention speak to body autonomy/integrity. No one person, army, state or government can torture, kill or experiment on any human being. Women lose body autonomy/integrity with these laws. It's unacceptable.
I mean, by the logic of "They have the potential to become a human" masturbation and periods are mass murder since we're "murdering" hundreds of sperm and eggs
Well periods aren't by choice exactly but yes "potential to become human" should not be something we focus on.
Pregnancy from rape isn't by choice either.
Pregnancy while on birthcontrol happens aswell
ejaculation isn't always a choice either. Just like periods, it's a bodily function that can occur without the action or consent of the person it's happening to. In colloquial terms, it's called a "wet dream" ie occurs during sleep without conscious provocation.
They weren't talking about whether or not it was by choice but by it has the potential, so if that is true just freeze all the eggs, save all the sperm, because every single one has the potential to become a human
So we are all mass murderers, even the pro-lifers. Let's see how they talk themselves out of that one...
You're right, even when a man gets a woman pregnant there are still millions of sperm cells that don't make it, each of us are walking memorials to a past mass murder.
sperm is just that.. sperm... Its like a recipe, you cant make create something if youre missing the ingredients. It takes an egg and a sperm to make a human. Once the two combine and become one, then life can develop. I hate it that women get raped and end up pregnant, but at the same time, how would you feel if you were the fetus that was developing, even tho it was in the early stages, and then have your mom just say, nope, not having it. I guess for some its easy to kill something that doesnt have a voice in the situation. Imagine how many amazing beautiful people that couldve been, that never was because of being allowed to kill your unborn child.
If I were magically the fetus, I assume my mom would have a valid reason for getting rid of me. Fetuses aren't people. They can't feel, they can't think, they aren't humans yet. And the notion of what could've been is ridiculous in this situation. You might as well say the same thing about suicide or the death penalty, "but so many amazing people might have come from that person in the future!" Possible people don't matter; what matters is the people we have right now, which includes women who've been raped and want nothing to do with the blob of cells inside them that they didn't ask for.
They can feel. Also, That fetus is a person. That fetus didn't ask to be here. We cannot create life; we have no right to take it away. It's wrong.
Isn't this what Catholics believe, hence no birth control? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzVHjg3AqIQ&ab_channel=CLoverTube
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Except when sperm and eggs are on their own, they don't have the potential to,become human life. An embryos have a fully unique genetic code.
It is not unique if you have twins.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
You should read a little bit of meiosis and mitosis before uttering such a stupid opinion.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Logic is not that they have the potential to became human. Rather it is that embryos and fetuses are human beings, just at a different stage of development. They have complete and unique DNA, and are developing.
An acorn is an oak tree...just at a different stage of development. There are protected groves of very old oak trees in my state, destroying one could land you up to a year in jail. SO if you step on an acorn while visiting that grove of protected trees....you should go to jail, right??
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
People did not like Antenor's well reasoned reply. Pro-Deather's don't like facts that stray from their narratives.
BP, I applaud you for bringing up these subjects that show how women's rights are being chipped away - right under our noses! - in even the what people were thinking to be well established democracies. It is scary to see and realise how fragile these rights are and how easily things can turn backwards, into the Middle Ages.
Emmy -- Oh yes, because Facebook is the be-all-end-all of factual news and articles! Because topics, political or otherwise, should only be discussed where YOU think they should, not in everyday life at anytime it is necessary. Because, our legislators and lawmakers only consult Facebook when deciding what they should vote on or should make into laws. SMH
Why do people like Emmy think they have the right to restrict content. No-one is forcing you to read It Emmy.
Your legislators and lawmakers also study sorcery as the Rep. Jonathan Stickland from Texas proved when he tweeted that vaccines are sorcery.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
In the Middle Ages Juririn would have had more sense.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
BP isn’t the place for political topics. Go to Facebook for that.
International Human Rights and articles within the Geneva Convention speak to body autonomy/integrity. No one person, army, state or government can torture, kill or experiment on any human being. Women lose body autonomy/integrity with these laws. It's unacceptable.