- Jan 12, 2012
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What is considered life is a difficult topic that many disagree on: is the point of "life" when the unborn child has it's own DNA, is it when it's heart starts to beat, is it when it is viable outside it's mother's womb, it is at birth?
Out of my own personal (very non-scientific) beliefs I would say life begins at conception. That is the point at which it begins to grow and develop and will continue to develop until it can survive outside it's mother's womb. An abortion to me can be defined as any external action that intentionally terminates that pregnancy. I was told at 19 weeks that one of my children may be a downs baby. There were very difficult decisions and I held fast to my beliefs and as it turned out he is perfectly healthy and happy. I understand that not everyone who receives that type of diagnosis has the same result I did, but we cannot devalue human life in that manner. We are not "God" and by acting as if we are we remove that measure by which our country was founded.
Such a bad time to be out of rep!