Rubio: Life begins at conception

[Brownshoe]

(08-10-2015, 02:30 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: I appreciate the answer. Out of curiosity, why a beating heart? Is that not as arbitrary as our opposition at the 3rd trimester? 

My point is that all of us seem to oppose abortion once the fetus is at a stage where we consider it to be an actual person. We disagree at when that stage is. Some say the day after sex with the use of drugs, some say fertilization, some say implantation, some say 8 weeks, some say 26 weeks, etc. What is you argument when someone says you support killing babies because you'd allow it up to 8 weeks?


Another curiosity: any rape/incest/health of the mother exceptions allowed after 8 weeks if you made the laws?

The point when you're considered dead is when your heart stops beating and you have no brain activity. I feel because that's the case it would only be logical to say that's when life starts. At 8 weeks the fetus has both brain activity and a beating heart.

If you are religious (which I once was) it says in the old testament (Leviticus) that life is in the blood. So it would be logical to assume that once you start producing blood you are alive.

I feel that you have 8 weeks after the person is raped or was apart of incest to make sure you don't bring life into the world. Once you bring life into the world then it's your responsibility to take care of that life until it can sustain itself. The fetus is a innocent life that should not pay for the crimes of another. If the fetus is threatening the life of the mother I think then it's the mother's decision if she wants to abort it or not.