are born, then do we only count how old we are by our birthdate and not our conception date? If abortion were to become illegal do you think that we would change the way we count our age?
The Chinese calculate a person’s age from the estimated time of his conception. Other societies celebrate birthdays to mark the day the already living child entered our world.On the day of birth we can first see, touch, and hold him. He has not come into being at this point, he has simply joined us on the outside. A birthday is not the beginning of a life, but the beginning of a face-to-face relationship. Our inability to see and hear an unborn child no more indicates he is not a person than our inability to hear someone in another part of the house indicates he is not a person.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
of course you are alive before your’e born… that’s obvious. and if abortion becomes illegal, no we won’t change how we count our age… although i believe some cultures do that.
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October 29th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
If abortion becomes illegal again, the crime rate will increase 20 years later. Read Freakanomics.
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October 29th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
So, we’d get to drink 9 months earlier?
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October 29th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
The Chinese calculate a person’s age from the estimated time of his conception. Other societies celebrate birthdays to mark the day the already living child entered our world.On the day of birth we can first see, touch, and hold him. He has not come into being at this point, he has simply joined us on the outside. A birthday is not the beginning of a life, but the beginning of a face-to-face relationship. Our inability to see and hear an unborn child no more indicates he is not a person than our inability to hear someone in another part of the house indicates he is not a person.
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