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[novapsyche]

All I have to say, after the discussion in abstractthought, is that if life begins at conception, God must be in love with death.

Note the difference between conception and pregnancy: conception is what happens when one sperm penetrates the egg in the outer edge of the fallopian tube. When the fertilized egg implants in the uterine lining, that’s pregnancy.

Female Reproductive Anatomy

Miscarriages are very common. Approximately 20% of pregnancies (one in five) end in miscarriage.

Miscarriage

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[hopeevey.livejournal.com]

And while I don't recall the numbers, I've read that a startling number of miscarriages likely go unnoticed - they happen so early, the woman didn't have time to find out she was pregnant.

[guttaperk.livejournal.com]

Death and life are twin sides of the same coin. We all die. I don't think that the death rate of foetuses reveals anything about God's attitude to death that was not waiting to be discovered in the death rate of Iraqi infants or Somali infants.

I do believe that life begins at conception, but that the foetus is far from being a person in the full sense of the law. Full personhood is only attained, if you think about it, at the age of adult majority; between conception and majority, it's all grey areas of varying murkiness.

[blackwinterbyrd.livejournal.com]

actually an anthropology teacher once lectured that due to recombinance and mismatch, and the dire complexity of 26 pairs of chromosomes~ any random matching of germ cells (conception) is considerably more than likely going to fail to implant or fail to divide. he told us that 80% of all fertalized eggs end up on the pad. well, not so colorfully; he said they were inviable, and expelled. necessarily, a LOT of fertalization goes on. implantation is a furthur step~ and the moral issues arise when we need help shaking it loose when its not welcome. this anti-hormonal contraception thing, like the anti-choice thing, is an oversimplification of the most awesome and beggaring Fact of Life: the only way into this party is through one of us. These anti-choicers live in a very naive and childish fairy tale~ where no mere woman controls the gates of life. truly though, fallibly human or no, we always have. that is god's blessing and curse, a power and a responsibility, a Choice. its ridiculous to wish that God intervenes and chooses for us, apalling to imply that men are better suited to decide, insulting to insist that our oldest crisis is beyond our rational and moral ken...
and i wax pretty grandiose :) i'm done.