Originally Posted by
David House
my misses tells me, many docs in the phils give women who have tired to abort a baby a difficult time, because it goes not just against their religious convictions but also goes against the reasons why they became doctors.
Shame on them then! I think that rather proves my point. Surely their primary duty is to their patient who is the mother, and not the potential child she carrying.
so a car has been built to be a F1 car, is it not still a F1 car even if it never leaves the garage ? its like saying a tv is not a tv unless someone turns it on and is watching it
If you read what I said I was talking about the "engine" being only part of the car. Of course a car would still be a car if left in the garage, the same way a person is a person if they never left home. The point is that having a heartbeat is no more relevant than any other muscle movement. There is too much emotional meaning attached to the "heart" meaning that there is life. The brain is much more important.
baby is born still he/she can't survive alone.. Still needs his/her mum to survive. So life begins when you are able to work and earn money to survive your daily needs?
I have accepted that many women have an understandable emotional response to this. It is not just the heartbeat which is essential, but it is the thing which is most noticeable and which therefore gets the most attention. Once born a baby does not need their mother to survive. Clearly they cannot survive alone but that is a different matter. They are then a viable being, are clearly alive and need full protection and nurture.
