[Hank Kerchief]

PS Do you really think a fetal human being, growing, taking in oxygen and nutrition and synthesizing molecules and growing and moving and reacting to stimuli and excreting waste and even learning in a simple way, is not alive in the scientific sense?

Why is it necessary to resort to a disingenuous use of words? Why not say exactly what you mean? A tumor is alive. A worm is alive and taking in oxygen and nutrition and synthesizing molecules and growing and moving and reacting to stimuli and excreting waste.

Who questions whether a fetus is alive? Why to you people keep asking the same question?

Words have meaning, like it or not. If you go to the store and ask for a pound of chicken and when you get home you discover you've been given a pound fertilized chicken eggs, you won't be satisfied with the argument that a fertilized and developing chicken "fetus" is a chicken.

You know what it means to say, "don't count your chickens 'til they hatch." That's why the census does not count people 'til they're born; because, their not people yet.

Hank

[wardaddy]

LOL....you actually used census techniques for bolstering your pro-abortion stance.

You win for "reach of the month"!

[carenot]

A worm is alive and taking in oxygen and nutrition and synthesizing molecules and growing and moving and reacting to stimuli and excreting waste.

So do tadpoles. But are they frogs?