Heated Debate Between PRO-LIFE And PRO CHOICE
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the difference between being a human being and a plant being a living organism. Is there a difference between living organisms and living embryos? Is it possible for an embryo to be born at a certain point in time, and is it murder if it is?
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that develops along the way I think heart starts beating we know it as early as even
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three weeks we now believe from from recent research at 15 weeks maybe even
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before then they can already feel pain I just think that through a little bit
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logically for are you are you a human if you don't have a sex yet are you what
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would you be classed as if you don't have a sex because you don't you don't
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find out the sex of your child until you're 25 weeks the mum doesn't but the
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the child actually has its sex right from the start so it depends on its
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chromosomes if it has xx or xy so right from the moment that human being
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comes into formation it's already there's no human it's not a human being there's
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a unique DNA code that's created that's different from the mom and the dads from
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conception yeah that and like in that code they can say their eye color their
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hair color their height that's fine but that's all just cells it's not an actual
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human being yet to the same extent I'm I'm also cells I mean we're all cells we're
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all cells but we're also we're now human beings right understand well I think
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we're adults I think that's the distinction we're making no because a
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plant is also alive but a plant is still a plant a baby is alive but it hasn't been
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born yet and it also has an experience and like it has an experience like quite
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simple it hasn't been born it's not left the mother is still inside of the
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mother's body it's a part of the mother it's it's breathing and eating and
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getting everything from the mother if the mother dies the child will die right
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yeah so to a certain extent if the child's already a certain amount of
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weeks I have heard in some cases historically that the child can be born
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certainly if the mother has died life if it's not really far along but what I'm
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saying is you know in in terms of aborting at three to four months which is
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something that I agree with you know the child the baby or the embryo whatever it
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is correct terminology is fully reliant on that and it's still part of the
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mother's body right so let's explore that a little bit more so we've got it
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hasn't had experiences and it still relies on its mother and those are the two
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things that we know that's not what I'm saying because we some people rely on
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their mother to death and you know some you know some people don't have a
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lot of experience because she's trying to summarize my what I'm trying to say
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and it's incorrectly how you summarized it yeah what I'm trying to say is to
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you that we have to remember that the the embryo is not a baby and it's not a
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human until a certain point that's not true okay go on King tell us all right
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because you made a point you said a plant is a plant and whatever you said
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about the humans that the embryo is not a human being yet but to come against
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that point a seed is where the plants come from right you can't get a human
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being from a seed and you can't get a plant from an embryo I can make a better
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comparison if you would like go for it but can I just say can I do that to come
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against your own point because you said I believe you said it's not murder because
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the woman is ejecting the baby that's I can I can use an analogy the medicine is
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inducing yes but I can use this analogy if if someone was hanging over this ledge
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there and they were about to fall to their death and I ejected them I didn't
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kill them I didn't shoot them in the head I didn't do anything by just pushed
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the way that would be killing them why it's the same thing I'm ejecting them no it's
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not your it's not yours it's not come from you and this is what we're trying to use
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all of these examples then I can yeah if we're gonna use this whole my body my
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choice yeah you can't keep using these if I'm a human being and I'm gonna push
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another human being it's not the same no but when we don't use my body my choice
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but you're okay with her using a comparison you're using a comparison to
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plants but we can't use this comparison we're talking about being alive we're
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talking about being alive and a plant is alive yeah you know a plant is still
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alive you know we're cells we're all cells like you so is the person being
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ejected off the building yeah yeah but that's a fair comparison than a plant no it's
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not it's not you you what you have to understand is that when I said about the
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plant I said that in regards to being a living organism yeah so an embryo human
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being a cat a plant we're all living you know the experiences that we have is
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different because with different types of living organisms yeah when you said
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about at conception this is the point where it becomes a human being I
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disagree with you personally because at that point it's just cells merging
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creating what would be a human being but now now sorry King I'm not too sure when
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it actually because I don't know about these things too deep I just have my
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opinions however whenever that cell that embryo starts to form into a baby with a
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heartbeat and starts to get organs like lungs and so forth and and limbs and so
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forth I think there should be a certain point where the abortion doesn't become an
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option I think that women need to and men or whoever's involved mainly the
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women because I need to make these decisions fast you know you you have
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these decisions firstly before you even sleep with the person but if it's still
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too late you need to make these decisions quickly I'm gonna let King go ahead
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but is a cell because you're conflating the your point is a cell a living
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organism a cell is but it's not a human being is it a living organ I said it
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already so how can you in the same breath say something is a living organism but it
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can't be murdered because it's not a human being I didn't say that it can't be
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murdered you're putting words in my mouth what I said what I said is a cell from the
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young lady who's who said that I'm from conscious con from conception thank you from
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conception it's a human being my whole my whole my whole my whole spill has been
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because of that statement yeah but that's semantics live human being living in a guy
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it's not semantics because when we're talking about abortion and killing a human being when
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you're talking about killing a cell a cell because these are names of things so a
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cell is a living organism right correct a human being is what also a living
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organism exactly so but they're not the same it doesn't matter why because we're
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talking about life we're not talking about whether it's a human life or a
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plant like what about my life it's my life and then because you're
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conflicting my life and then you're saying a cell is a living organism if you
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cannot compare cell to a human being then that means you should be able to get a
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plant out of a cell right I'm gonna come I'm gonna respond to you so a life is
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not the same as a living organism or I don't know if I'm saying this right
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correctly it's not that they're not they're not the same things yes but
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you're conflicting things that actually don't matter whether you call it a life
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or a living organism or a human being doesn't matter all these are just words
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that we used to express ourselves further to develop further points to be
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able to communicate better but the basis the basic ideology is that you can only get a
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human being from the cells that are grown in a woman's womb they really get a
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plant I get you and the reason why I do hold on to words is because it's words
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which impact people's opinions so much when you're talking about killing human
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beings it sounds savage and it sounds wrong yeah but that's not but that's not
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what's happening with abortion at three three months in my opinion how do you know
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because is it a human being and that's my argument when when it becomes a human
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being that's when we're talking about that's a good question is like when is
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it a human sorry I'm just southern well I'd love to give a medical so I'm a
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medical doctor and we study this in medical school you know when does a
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human being begin to exist when does an organism begin to exist we learn it
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begins at conception there was no real debate about that it's only when you get
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into the politics of abortion that people are like oh we don't know we don't
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know when it's a life we don't know when it's a human being in it from a
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medical perspective in medical school in my medical practice is very
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obvious when I see a lady who's pregnant if she wants the baby she can be only
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five weeks along you go on the NHS website it says you and your baby at
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five weeks this is what it's like and so I think all of us readily accept in every
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other context that this is a living human being I don't think anyone denies
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that except when it comes to abortion because it's you know pro-choices need to
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say it's not that because you know that the reality is is is difficult to
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reconcile with the pro-choice view so there was even a survey of this a few years ago
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of biologists this is a biological question right biology literally means
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the study of life they studied 6,000 biologists around the world and they
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said are you pro-life or pro-choice and half of them pro-life half of them
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pro-choice probably more pro-choice and he said when does an individual member of
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the human species begin to exist like what else could human being mean an
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individual human organism of the species homo sapiens and 95% of them said
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about fertilization we know that this is a human because it's homo sapiens it's
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not any other species it's not a cat or a dog or a elephant we know that it's
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living because it can die and we all know what it means when a baby dies in the
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womb it's a living it's human what more does it need to be a human being it's got
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everything that I've got I hear you it's not fully developed and I think that that
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when we're looking at some of the reasons why women have abortions and some of
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the conditions human beings that have been born are living in for me personally it makes
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me understand why people why women are having abortions and it makes me think that makes
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me be pro-choice yeah because if what you're saying is true I'm not disputing that scientifically
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maybe so however in my opinion I still do believe that women should have a choice to
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abort a child whether it's at home as long as it's safe or you know in a medical facility
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up to a certain point do you know I mean yeah so I think you know we can obviously disagree about
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and or agree about when abortion is okay but I think we can still agree on what this is that
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we're talking about I don't think we need to sort of distort the reality and say it's not a human
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being or something I'm not accusing you of deliberately doing that but I really think
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you know we have to get these basic biological facts agreed upon because otherwise we're never
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going to agree on anything and you know this is a baby from about 16 days the baby's heart begins
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to pump blood around the body at six weeks it begins to hiccup and suck and swallow maybe seven weeks
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from four to five weeks it's beginning to move by itself from about 10 weeks it can probably feel
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pain and it's conscious there's all these things that develops very quickly but if you want to say
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oh it's only a full human being when it's fully developed well science again shows us a human's brain
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is not typically fully developed until they're 25 years old so some of you gen z people are not fully
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developed I doubt even I am to be honest but you know we don't allow people to distinguish between
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humans and say you're valuable you're not you have a right to life you're you don't on how developed
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they are I'm more developed than some of you not because I'm more intelligent but because I'm just
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older and you know heading towards death gradually that doesn't make me more of a human it doesn't give
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me more of a right to life it just means I'm older but we are equal because we're equal human beings
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and the pro-life view just says that's the same of every human being that we're all equal no matter
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how developed no matter how big no matter how independent we are all human beings and therefore
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we're all equal the mother and the baby and so the pro-lifer has to say the mother matters infinitely
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the baby matters infinitely and we have to do our best to try and protect both um so I'm I don't find
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the consciousness argument very compelling just for the record but I've never read anything that
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suggests that there's consciousness at 10 weeks um at the earliest I've read is 20 weeks