When does life begin? Dear team! I am doing my Matura thesis about abortion. Now I would need the opinion of different people (doctors, consultants, gynecologists) who tell me - when does human life begin? When can you say, now it is a child and no ``tissue``, cell cluster anymore?
Human life began several hundred thousand years ago and continues to develop. A person is born and dies. A person becomes a person through birth. Before birth, human life develops according to conception. Also legally seen, the human being becomes a human being through birth. The Swiss Penal Code requires that the more advanced a pregnancy is, the more serious the reasons for an abortion must be. From 23 to 24 weeks, a viable person can be born. Your question about the beginning of the human being is a question of definition. The definition of the human being is a question of power and a question of life and death. If women have too little self-determination, they are driven into misery, infirmity and death. Illegal abortions are still one of the most important causes of illness and death of young women worldwide. Women must be able to control their own bodies as much as possible. During pregnancy their self-determination is obviously increasingly restricted by the increasing rights of an emerging human being. It is only from the moment of birth that society is fully responsible for the rights of the defenseless child. Before birth, the expectant child is a part of the mother’s body. The respect for each individual human being stands before every power of society. When the mother’s physical integrity is disregarded, access to her mother becomes monstrous in favor of absolute ideas about human life.
