If life started at conception, Wouldn't our age be on the day we were conceived?

Question

If you are pro-life, you better start adding a few months on to your age or else you are admitting you weren’t alive those first 9 months.

Answer 1

I like your point :)  

Answer 2

yeah that's a good view

and also why do we call our first birthday or first birthday when it's really our second birthday

so the day you were born doesn't count?

(it might be confusing what i'm saying)

Answer 3

Your age is how long since you came out the womb, it's just how people measure it, it has nothing to do with their beliefs.

Do you think the baby is only alive when it comes out the womb? What about the day before?

Answer 4

Yes, but that would involve parents admitting when they had s*x and admitting the FACT that they had s*x and, OH MY!, that wouldn't go over with the Christian right very well at all.

Answer 5

Your birthday is the day of your birth.  That is how age has always been determined.  Nice try though.

Answer 6

Actually, in some cultures, like the Chinese, they do count from conception and add a few months.  Just FYI

Answer 7

Yeah good question for the pro-lifers. Why doesn't our age reflect the time in the womb? Kinda looks like us piece of **** pro-choicers had the right idea in the first place doesn't it! Obviously whom ever decided on how to calculate age of humans did it this way for a reason huh.

Geez I wonder what argument the PL's are gonna have for this one.

Darn good question by the way!!

Answer 8

Omdz i often asked this question to many ppl saying that we actually all should be a year older cuz i used to think your life starts wen you are out of the womb.....but i guess it doesnt work like that, anyways intresting question.

Answer 9

Your problem highlights the crux of the matter and why there are so many divergent opinions on the subject.  If the law or general consensus says your age is based on the date of your birth, then to you this defines what is real and true.  Yes, this is the general way we have decided to reckon our age; in context to the day we exited our mothers.  However, if you give it some thought, you must realize this is probably mostly due to issues of convenience.  Its often hard to know the exact day a person is conceived and also the principle "out of sight, out of mind comes into play.  However, if your truth is defined by divine principles or a belief in God that establishes moral absolutes, then we must think further into the issue.  We can't let societal dictates tell us that a baby is not a baby as long as he/she is still sheathed behind his/her mother's womb or birth canal.  We must consult a deeper principle that resides within us that all men and women have if they have not completely blunted the call of conscience; that a baby is still a baby, even if you can't see it.

Basically what it comes down to is, are you a humanistic moral relativist, or do you acknowledge moral absolutes that come down from God.

Answer 10

Actually, I live in Hungary and they do that, make you a year older then you are. I hate it now that I am older.

Everytime I have my birthday, my husband adds a year to my age.

I am a foriegner here and not really sure why they do this as a custom, they are a religious country of mostly christians.