Why would a bacteria be considered life on Mars...

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Anybody want to give an answer?

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My answer is, that's a terrible analogy.

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Is God a murderer if there is a miscarriage?

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What is the definition of murder? Not your definition. What is the legal standard for murder?

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My answer is, that's a terrible analogy.

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Go on.

Because they concede life and run to the personhood argument.

I hate abortion, but has anyone ever tried to claim a fetus is not “life”?

Plus we have no problem wiping out bacteria by the trillions.

shite analogy

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What is the definition of murder? Not your definition. What is the legal standard for murder?

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I'm guessing you're looking for "intent"? My argument would be that there is no intent by the mother, but doesn't God do everything for a reason?

I imagine that the distinction would be viability. If a bacteria is found on Mars, then we would assume that it has the nutrients readily available to reproduce, and would reproduce exponentially until its stationary phase (and then death phase). In this sense it would be viable. But in the same sense, the fetus would be alive, but the question of its viability would be whether it could survive outside the uterus, since fundamentally comparing the viability of a unicellular organism with a multicellular organism will always run into what an individual person considers viable. Given that human fetuses survive at a 90 percent rate after 26 weeks, but have survived at 23 weeks of gestation, albeit at a smaller clip, I would say that between 23-26 weeks is when a human fetus shows viability.

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My argument would be that there is no intent by the mother, but doesn't God do everything for a reason?

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If a baby is miscarried, who said God did anything? If some guy gets drunk and runs his car off a mountain road and dies, did God kill him?

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Anybody want to give an answer?

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Pro-Choice people understand that the fetus/embryo/zygote being aborted is made up of living cells, they just don't think that the fetus/embryo/zygote in question has obtained "personhood" and therefore can be aborted.

It's not about life vs not-life, its about when is personhood granted? The moment of conception or some period after?

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I imagine that the distinction would be viability. If a bacteria is found on Mars, then we would assume that it has the nutrients readily available to reproduce, and would reproduce exponentially until its stationary phase (and then death phase). In this sense it would be viable. But in the same sense, the fetus would be alive, but the question of its viability would be whether it could survive outside the uterus, since fundamentally comparing the viability of a unicellular organism with a multicellular organism will always run into what an individual person considers viable. Given that human fetuses survive at a 90 percent rate after 26 weeks, but have survived at 23 weeks of gestation, albeit at a smaller clip, I would say that between 23-26 weeks is when a human fetus shows viability.

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Before viability, would you say that a fetus is a human life?