Pro-life supporters, I have a task for you. If you succeed, you save a pretend baby. Will you help?

Question

Hypothetical situation:

A mother is thinking about abortion, but she says she will not have an abortion if someone gives her enough reason not to. She says that if you are able to distinguish her baby's embryo from other animals embryos, she will not have an abortion because that shows that all human life is sacred and that God/higher power is truly at work, even for embryos.

Please pick out her baby (human) out of the following embryos of various different animals:

1. http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/2214/93295651gr1.jpg

2. http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/7062/53833628rg8.jpg

3. http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/5008/56119488aj3.jpg

4. http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/684/64451554lu5.jpg

5. http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/2835/31411373my5.jpg

6. http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/8606/11280392vl0.jpg

7. http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/4643/67206233au7.jpg

8. http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/8733/57793637nk7.jpg

9. http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/9595/90877284dd7.jpg

First correct answer gets 10 points.

Reasoning or why you picked that particular embryo (luck, logic, chance) is appreciated also.

I will post the answers soon.

Answer 1

Most awesome question I've ever seen here!

Answer 2

I'm going to take a random guess and say 7.

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Answer 3

It's number 3! I'm not late. *Jedi mind trick*

Answer 4

I will go with 4

Answer 5

My first guess is number 8.

Second guess number 1.

Third guess number 2.

I'm just basing these answers on pictures of human embryos I've seen in the past. I'm not confident though.

Just to clarify, I'm not religious.

Though I do believe that every person has a choice on that sort of thing. If you're not prepared then why should you have to learn in such a short time.

Edit: Aw d**n it number 3 looked like a d**n Alien from the Spielberg films D:

Answer 6

People with any biological education at all already know that all vertebrate embryos look similar up to a certain point in development. Is this the best excuse you have for slaughtering innocents?

Answer 7

what an evil, evil, question. I love it.

Answer 8

Missing  the point entirely, Ray G. writes "Is this the best excuse you have for slaughtering innocents?".

So, Ray, what's YOUR excuse for slaughtering innocents?

Or didn't you even bother trying to understand this question?

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I'll guess #5. It looks like a 3 or 4 week old embryo, I think.

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"5 = Chicken"

Well okay then, just in time for breakfast. Mmmm.

Answer 9

You know, just because the baby doesn't look like a baby at the beginning doesn't even begin to address the question of ensoulment.

The majority of pro-lifers, like me, don't give a rat's patootie what the baby looks like in early development. What we care about is that this baby is a person, a human person, who is being denied the right to life because he/she doesn't look like an 8 pound newborn.

If one allowed that 'clump of cells' to continue developing, does that mean it's going to turn into a mouse or a monkey or an elephant?

Answer 10

If a DNA test were conducted on a two cell zygote of each species, only one would have HUMAN DNA.  Your comparison is ridiculous...do we base decisions of life and death on looks?

Answer 11

I'd hazard a guess at 7, but I'm fairly sure I'm wrong. Then again, I'm pro-choice :P

Apparently, pig and human fetuses are virtually indistinguishable for a long time.

EDIT: Aw, here I was, thinking that was a scorpion xD Even though they hatch from eggs... o_O

Wow, that is one ugly little bugger.

Answer 12

Number three

d**n, I didn't even see the answers!! I guess I'm too late, then?

Answer 13

Then maybe we shouldn't eat meat!!

Answer 14

My answer has nothing to do with those images, and i BELIEVE that you are not telling the truth.

If it really matters that much though, tell her i'll adopt.

Answer 15

How about "None of them"?

Answer 16

well done!!....and didn't you make a small point about evolution at the same time????... YES!....

great question!....

Answer 17

I'll be back...

OK I think number 2 because I believe the tail disappears later and I counted the number of fingers.

I am a pro-life Atheist which may surprise some regulars. Basically my opinion is don't get pregnant if you don't want a baby and don't blame the male if you do get pregnant because sexual intercourse is a joint activity. This only applies where abortion is not necessary for medical reasons and I believe women who have been raped should be allowed to have an abortion. The rest can have the baby and give it away but the government should pay for the 6-8 period at the end of gestation where it is not safe for the woman to work.

Answer 18

I am going with 5...but, are you showing these each at the same stage of developement??

Answer 19

you gonna help support the baby? or just get your point across at the expense of someone else, this isnt 1769 get yourself together you dont have to agree just respect.

Answer 20

I'm not sure why, but even I find this question vaguely distasteful.

Answer 21

I'm saying 4.

Cause it looks the most similar to the other pictures of Human Embryos I've seen.

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What I don't get is why people refuse to answer the question. Don't they realize that if this was reality, they'd should stop dilly-dallying on their principles and starting choosing the right embryo?

Anyway, dang! number 3?

Answer 22

God, I love BORSHUNS!