Core Argument: A non-viable fetus is only human flesh.
To consider a non-viable fetus as a Human Being ( more than mere human flesh, flesh of the Mother) is an affront to God and a profaning of His Word.
First and foremost Genesis 2:7 is on point and dispositive of the question of when Humanity begins, that is when a Human Being ( an individual with protectable Human rights ) begins. The Book of Genesis is the Word of God given to Man for his edification. Genesis 2:7 (KJV) states “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” A Man becomes a living soul, a unique individual of Humankind at his first breath; a distinct creature from his Mother, that can be related to by another Human Being and also relate to his Mother and another Human Being.
When Man tries to relate to a non-viable fetus as a human being, and not mere flesh, he is trying to enter God’s domain. Man is pretending to be like God. This is the same sin as in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit trying to “be as Gods” (Genesis 3:5). Here modern man is trying to become like ‘God’ by its anti-abortion stance on non-viable fetuses and it is more hideous than before because here the Anti-abortionists are trying to be like God Almighty himself, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, the Alpha and Omega, forever and ever without end. God knew which of your Daddy’s sperm you came from and which of your Mommy’s eggs it impregnated from the beginning of time because He is Omnipotent. Even Man’s greatest tool of human reason Math is Incomplete. Nor can any other man-made science or philosophy be invented that is not incomplete. Only the Word of God as revealed in the Bible leads to True Human Wisdom and Understanding of our world and who we are living in it.
Let’s look at an analogy. Assume we are in the far future and man invents (creates) a breakthrough cutting-edge new car called “The Car of Babel”, fondly referred to as a ‘babel’; and its design of a billion parts and 20 billion bytes of embedded computer code takes approximately 9 months to build because the car order and the car itself has to transverse the earth 4 times in the production process, stopping at an innumerable number of work shops along the way. There is no way to completely understand the production process because of its complexity so before the car is delivered, it is throughly inspected by the buyer for defects (and there is always going to be some defects, mostly slight and insignificant but every once in awhile a major one ). Suppose a buyer, called Mom wants to order a Babel for her Son. The order is placed and the only thing to do is wait for the inspection in about a 6 months, unless the order is canceled prior to that date. Once the Babel, at inspection, is deemed functional with defects that are minor or can be overcome by future repair work, Mom signs off for delivery of the car. And within the next 3 month, but generally as a rule at the end of 3 months, the Babel is delivered and fitted to the Son. The moment the Son sits in his newly made car, it turns on and becomes fully functional; and his Babel disappears around him and yet it will always be with him, whenever he travels distances and at that time the car is sensed around him. Once the Mom signs off for delivery to her Son at 6 months there is no way to safely cancel the car order because the processing time for the cancelation to be effective is unknowable, as is the delivery date; thus the car could be cancelled after it is delivered and fitted to the Son.
The Babel, at delivery and fitting, is analogous to a viable human fetus ready for its first breath of life whether it occur during the 7th or 8th or, usually, at the end of the 9th month. Prior to or at the 6 month inspection the Babel is analogous to a non-viable fetus; being that it is still in the creation process, flesh and blood that has no identity or life (spirit) when taken from the instrument of that creation, the womb, prematurely.
Those that believe that human life begins at conception point to the fact the the fetus has different DNA than the mother, but this is irrelevant for a couple of reasons. First, half the DNA of the fetus normally comes from the Mother. Secondly, there is a trillions of organisms, each with their own genetic code; living, growing, reproducing and dying in and on all human bodies. These include bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists and viruses; and is commonly referred to as Human Microbiome. Lastly, if a Mother was only allowed to make or create a fetus with only her DNA, that would be cloning. But Genesis 2:24 explains why a fetus has different DNA than the Mother when it states “Therefore man ***shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”.
What about all the preventable miscarriages ?
If Human life did occur prior to the viability of the fetus, it should elicit more of a response from anti-abortionists. There are more lives to try to save and more mourning to be done. There are millions of miscarriages ( let us assume for argument sake that we’re talking about miscarriages that happen before the fetus is viable ) around the world. In States where abortion is legal you could say these are intentional miscarriages done on unviable fetuses. Then there are all the unintentional miscarriages that occur for any number of reasons, known or unknown.
Now let us look at both these miscarriages just describe, both involve the death of an unviable fetuses, one being unintentional and the other intentional. If Anti-abortionists believe life begins at conception why are they not concerned about these natural miscarriages. These lives are lost, also, and they should be mourned just like anti-abortionists mourn the supposed life lost because of an abortion. There should be mass candlelight vigils around the Country with pleas too God to spare these souls from the evils of death. There should be money raised for the development of new treatments to save these unintentional miscarriages. But there is no concern for these nonviable fetuses. Why ?
Too say that a human being’s life begins at conception causes another profanity of God’s creation, when considering miscarriages, by insinuating that God designed Heaven and Earth with the merciless, unloving, cruel and thoughtless design where millions upon millions of human beings throughout history will become miscarriages and die, even before seeing the World created for them because they never leave the womb. Who do the Anti-abortionists consider these supposed souls are; maybe God’s little storm troopers on the front lines of overcoming evil, what folly my friends.