As the mother of 5 children, all of my children were alive long before the first breath. This is a scientific fact, not religious speculation.
When I miscarried two of them, they died in utero. They had to be alive in utero, with heartbeats and souls, in order to die.
The only difference between the 3 that are living and the 2 that are gone is that they did not survive to be born. They were human beings, loved and wanted. They were not clumps of cells.
These women, with their twisted logic, are ghouls.
My heart goes out to you. I also have lost 2 children in the womb - one at 12 weeks and the other at 42 weeks.
Ironically for those who claim that breathing makes a child a person, my daughter who died at 42 weeks may have died because she breathed in meconium.
Scripturally speaking, God says that the life of a creature is in its blood, not in its breath.
Ultimately, only the One who created human life has the right to take it back, and even with all the test-tube baby stuff, a human cannot make a baby. Only God can cause a sperm and ovum to unite in such a way to create a child.
This case stands to set really, really bad precedent because it allows any individual’s belief about another person’s sanctity to determine whether they may kill that person. According to the legal logic of this, as long as I believe that my religion says I can slaughter somebody I can, even if the laws recognize the sanctity of that person’s life. This would give wholesale authority for any Muslim to kill any non-Muslim because the Quran requires such killing.
The only way out of this kind of argument is to acknowledge what the 14th Amendment actually intended to say: that all biological humans have Constitutional protection.
They unique individuals, separate of the mother’s tissue. These people apparently have never heard of DNA. Their argument is sick and flawed.