Posted on 11/08/2011 9:26:42 AM PST by surroundedbyblue
In the Carpenter home, every meal begins with a prayer. Robin and his wife, Emily, are devout Christians. But they part ways with many other Christians over a measure that would expand the legal definition of human life.
Their son, Luke, now 4 years old, was born through in vitro fertilization.
The anti-abortion amendment being voted on this week in the state could restrict in vitro procedures, and the Carpenters are worried that if they wait too long to add to their family, they may end up breaking the law.
"I don't really want or need anybody else getting involved in trying to limit how that works for us, or stopping it," said Robin Carpenter. "We need to have the same rights to have a family as anybody else does."
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You have every right to not find historical truths about the Christian faith interesting. I find them rather fascinating myself.
conception has taken place when the fertilized egg makes it to the uterus and implants. A fertilization of an egg in a petri dish is not to me conception. Medically a zygot is the term for just a fertilized egg. The union of two gametes that may proceed to be a fertizilized egg.
If you read enough about the historical truth of the Christian faith, you would find it differs according to which denomination is being read about...Debating about different faiths can become a tower of babel...people talk past each other to make their faith the true one...yep, to me such discussions are boring and lead to nothing.
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