{"id":112,"date":"2025-12-01T02:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godweb.org\/wordpress\/?p=112"},"modified":"2025-12-01T16:22:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:22:54","slug":"112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godweb.org\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"Life is Sacred"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.godweb.org%2F%3Fp%3D112&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<p>At the center of the debates about abortion, stem cell research, and a host of other issues lies the question of when human life begins. Religious conservatives often argue that &#8220;the Bible teaches&#8221; a human life begins at conception and therefore all the legal rights belonging to an adult human being belong to the recently fertilized egg. Others insist that a gradually developing fetus is only gradually acquiring the characteristics, and the rights, of a human being. Religious liberals more often argue that in a situation of conflict between a mother&#8217;s needs and interests of a potential child, there is no easy answer to the question about the beginning of human life. 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