Is an unborn child a person?

Question

Is an unborn child a person?

Answer 1

Yes, it grows and develops, and is living.

Answer 2

Yes, I believe they are. There might be a point where, indeed, the baby is a "bundle of cells" and not a person, but if that's the case then how can we possibly pinpoint a moment (like the third trimester), and say OK, now it's a person? It's a huge grey area, and when it comes to matters of life and death, I think it's best to err on the side of life, and just consider any unborn child a full person. Unfortunately, the law of the United States does not take that position, and as a result millions of babies have been and continue to be murdered.

Answer 3

Yes, just an itty bitty unborn one.

After all, I'm an adult but yet I am still a growing, changing bundle of cells. I'm just bigger than I used to be. I'm still dependent on some things, still growing and changing, but that's life.

And that life began wayyy back when, when those first cells split.

Answer 4

No, the unborn child at some point will develop into a person but the soul isn't there right away. The physical body doesn't make someone a person. The car is nothing without the driver. The driver is the person. The person is not there until it can live on it's own. So after a certain amount of months it can & would be considered a person but if you mean the first 4 months, No.

Answer 5

No. Children have favorite colors, favorite animals. Children hug you, run around, laugh.

@ person above me: Miscarriage is tragic, and a very painful thing especially for women looking forward to having kids; my sister had a miscarriage. But I still don't think this makes a fetus a child.

Answer 6

Yes.

Everyone who has an abortion, does so to prevent a person from being born.

Answer 7

I heard that once the woman is 3 months pregnant the fetus is a person by law.

Answer 8

Depends. Are we talking after the ninth day of gestation, or at 39 weeks of gestation? "No" for the former, "yes" to the latter, in my opinion.

Answer 9

Yes

Answer 10

No.

Answer 11

NO

Answer 12

yes

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Answer 13

Under the law, I do not think so. It is a life that is sacred, no matter what else people choose to call it.

Answer 14

there has been a lot of fighting over this question i personally think if it has a heartbeat then it is considered a human

Answer 15

Morally, yes.

By some scientific definitions under debate, no.

Answer 16

No.  Personhood is legally granted at birth.

That does not mean that one week before birth it is morally acceptable to kill the unborn baby.   I'll wait for a follow-up question.

Answer 17

Yes, as are corpses and cadavers.

Answer 18

Is an acorn a tree? Is a tadpole a frog? Are we all undead corpses? No. Same scenario there with the "un"born.

Answer 19

Not until it can live outside of the womb.  Until then it is a bundle of cells.

Answer 20

I think first you have to define what "Person" means, because that can be something different for everyone.

Answer 21

Yes, ask anybody who has seen their baby when they have lost it.