When does life, "begin?"

[CagedinSanity]

On the way home from the bus a year or so ago, I saw a sign on the road, "ABORTION KILLS CHILDREN" but, does it really? they arent really children yet. They're barely living beings when thier inside thier mother. Sure, they MAY be breathing and in a way alive, but not without help. Doesn't life really begin once a kid either starts to be able to think, breathe, and see? Or does it begin as soon as its detected in the mother?

This is not a debate on Abortion, sort of, but this is more a discussion if it actually kills, and when exactly are humans considered to be "alive?"

[Jon]

i belive people are alive when they feel they are. and yet, no one really knows when spirits begin to have feelings.

so you can never really tell.


i'm not *against* abortion. its not like i enjoy it, and i dont want it to continue going on, but not many people do it.. you know? there's so many babies being born, and old people dying to continue the chain, not to sound evil, but it might actually do us good to have a little less people. with all this hunger in distant contries..