[JMJ333]

What happens at conception if life doesn't begin? You want to change the definition because you think it is okay to discard human life if it happens to get in the way of free sex. There isn't anything self-righteous in my wanting you to stop that. It is asking for you to please consider having mercy. What is wrong with mercy?

[Bump in the night]

You want to change the definition because you think it is okay to discard human life if it happens to get in the way of free sex.

I keep seeing this "free sex" thing on this thread. I'm lost. What does "free sex" have to do with abortion? Not everyone that receives an abortion got pregnant by having wild orgies and unprotected sex with multiple unknown partners. I know someone that got pregnant who had been married for years, didn't want children, used a condom and spermicide and got pregnant anyway. Wild "free sex" people, as you call them, are not the only ones who need or get abortions.

[jlogajan]

You want to change the definition

You don't own the "original." Nobody has to change any definition. You have yours, they have theirs. It is a perfectly reasonable position that a lump of cells is not yet a human in any meaningful sense -- no matter how high you crank your religion-based hate machines.

[History is truth]

I had a mole removed. It was a mass of living human cells. Did it have a soul? Have I sinned by terminating the life of these human cells? Am I forgiven for my sins?