Off Topic — HabitableZone

Off Topic » in reply to Sad really- that people can't see it.

Yes, and the woman's antibodies will destroy it if it gets out of line.
Mary Anne — (archived)

Tell me about it.

You compare a strand of DNA to a live infant.

Show me the lungs that enable a strand of DNA to take an independent breath.

Show me the brain that enables a strand of DNA to imitate the faces made by adults, and the muscles it uses to do so. (Hours-old newborns can do that.)

Show me a strand of DNA's startle reflex or instinctive nursing behavior.

This is what is meant by "living independently". Not earning a living, or even feeding one's self. Infants, and late-term fetuses with forebrains, are human beings: individuals with human minds and viable bodies. Everything before that, isn't.

Some people "can't see it", that DNA=human being, because "it" isn't there. It's a belief, part of a religious outlook, which you are well within your rights to hold and to cherish.

I neither hold nor cherish it. Yet somehow I managed to sustain several pregnancies and give birth, and not drown the babies, even though nobody passed a law that forced me to continue my pregnancies. It's interesting that you seem to believe (if I read you right) that your mother would have aborted you if she'd had the choice, and that most women who are pregnant and can't keep the baby for whatever reason (not only single women) would abort without a second thought. If that's what you believe, your knowledge of women needs some fine-tuning. We're more complex than that.

Regards--
Mary Anne

Log in or register to post.

The whole thread (41 posts)