That depends on how you define life. How do you demonstrate a fetus is ‘alive’?
It is not dead, is it? Therefore it is alive.
“That depends on how you define life. How do you demonstrate a fetus is ‘alive’?”
Well, for starters, if it’s dead they usually quickly remove it because dead it will threaten the woman’s life. If it’s alive, it works harmoniously with her body. Sounds pretty simple to me.
Depends on how you define life? Well, mostly we define something as being alive when it’s not dead and dead when it’s not alive and for the most part, most people can tell the difference.
Now, granted, the unborn baby is covered by the woman’s body, so you have to use some other methods, some tools, instruments to extend your five senses, but it’s really not that hard to do for those how know how and have the equipment. Most mothers can even pretty much tell. Indeed, in most cases the mother’s body itself knows when the baby has died and so her body “miscarries”—she’s carrying a baby that is alive; when it dies, the “carry” becomes a mis-carry and labor begins because the woman’s own body knows the difference between the baby being alive and being dead. Not always, but for the most part.
So it’s alive as long as it’s not dead and dead whenever it ceases to be alive. That’s not the issue.
The issue is what it is that’s alive when it’s alive and what it is that’s dead when it is dead. It’s not a live kangaroo nor a dead loon. It’s a human baby, which is to say, it’s a less-developed human, not a less-developed gnu.