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The forced motherhood (anti-abortion)  debate is  is not about whether or not there is a physical body in the womb.   The debate is not about whether on not the zygote/ embryo/ fetus is alive, human, and unique.  The real questions are:

     What is Life and where is it located?

     Is life the physical body, itself or is life located in a non-physical spirit which inhabits the physical body?

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A Major Conflict 
in Religion and Now in Politics
Revolves Around the Answer to this Question:

Is a Human Being His/Her  Physical Body?

Is a human being his/her physical body as the fundamentalist Christians claim?   Does God really step in and create a brand new human being EVERY time a human egg and sperm unite?° 

The Three Religious Theories / Assumptions: 

Both Atheism and Christian One-life-ism claim that a human being is his or her physical body.    The Eastern religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism, follow the belief that a human being is an eternal non-physical spirit being who temporarily inhabits a physical body to experience life on Earth.  

Readers are directed to the page titled:  Three Religious Theories / Assumptions°   which offers an  in-depth analysis of atheism, Christian one-life-ism, and reincarnation.   Each assumption results in people living their lives very differently from those who believe in either of the other two theories. 

The Religious Question:  

"Are you  your physical body, created by God at Conception?" or "Are you an eternal, non-physical spirit being who simply inhabits a physical body to experience life on Earth?"   A vast amount of human behavior depends upon which of these theories is correct, including, the controversies regarding: 

Forced Motherhood (Abortion)°  

Evolution Versus Six Days of Creation°. - 

Stem Cell Research°    

Capital Punishment  --  The Death Penalty°    

The Rapture°  

If humans are non-physical, spirit beings as the Christian Bible tells us,° and as the physical evidence seems to indicate, then intentionally terminating a pregnancy is the biological equivalent of halting work on a construction site.   If this perspective is correct, then when a pregnancy is terminated, the spirit being (who would have entered the body if it had been fully formed) simply enters a different newly formed body at a different time.

This Question Is also One of Two Core Questions  ^***   
in the Political Portion of the Abortion Controversy: 

If you’re like us, we had to ask:  “What’s so important about being or not being our physical bodies?”   Well, here’s the answer we received:   "If a human being is his/her physical body (in the form of a fertilized egg) that God has magically transformed°  into a new, separate, sovereign, individual, human being at conception, then doing anything to interrupt the lifecycle of that egg is, indeed, taking a life, and secular laws are appropriate."   The Ultra-conservative Christians claim that God's conception magic act°  is an absolute fact,    But, they have a serious problem.   They have no way to prove their claims, and strong evidence points to a different conclusion that  is a far more logical.

Another Possibility:

If humans are something other than their physical bodies,°  then the egg is merely the seed, the "blueprints," the instructions from which a physical, human body is created out of earth matter.  (See  Body Versus Spirit)°     That potential, when developed and nurtured, grows into a physical body which becomes the host for a being, for a soul, or as the Christian Bible calls it, a host for the "Spirit."   

Obviously, if the physical egg, itself, is not the human being, then what happens to that egg is a personal, private matter^°  and is not an issue for public debate.   

Thus,  the forced motherhood (anti-abortion)  debate is  is not about whether or not there is a physical body in the womb.   The debate is not about whether on not the zygote/ embryo/ fetus is alive, human, and unique.°     The real questions are:

     What is Life and where is it located?^° 

     Is life the physical body, itself? °   or is life located in a non-physical spirit which inhabits the physical body?^°

The forced motherhood (anti-abortion) proponents claim that from the moment of conception, the physical matter, itself, (the  zygote /embryo / fetus)  is a newly created, independent human being.°  

Is a human being his/her physical body as the fundamentalist Christians claim?   Does God really step in and create a brand new human being EVERY time a human egg and sperm unite?   Is life in the spirit°  which enters into and and temporarily uses a physical body to connect to and experience earth-plane reality?   Billions of non-fundamentals Christians  believe in reincarnation)°    If they are correct,  then aborting an embryo is similar to halting work on a construction site, and secular laws prohibiting abortion are nothing more than disguised forms of religious tyranny.

The Evidence:

There is no evidence whatsoever that can prove that a human being is his or her physical body.     This faith-based belief  conflicts with the scientific evidence which tells us that  everything thought of as physical is not physical at all -- that everything which appears to be physical is actually only energy -- that energy is controlled by consciousness -- that what consciousness is, where it is, and how it functions is still a mystery.   

Science has yet to find any evidence as to what human consciousness is or where it is located.   No evidence whatsoever has ever been found indicating that human  consciousness is part of the physical body.   You might also note that the evidence indicates that body cells have a life cycle of their own with a maximum life of about six or seven years.   Some organs such as the live recycle all the cells in a matter of a few months.

Readers who think that they are their body are urges to examine the latest findings of astronomy and sub-atomic physics.    A good place to start is to  watch the film:  What the Bleep Do We Know?°    

The "I am my body"  belief also conflicts with the Christian Bible which, in numerous passages, clearly distinguishes between the spirit which inhabits an Earthly, physical body and the body, itself.°  

This leaves the conservative fundamentalist Christians with this problem:  How can a human being be a physical body when physical matter does not exist --when there is only energy?    

Here's a brief quote from one of the  What the Bleep Do We Know  film reviews:°     "The film uses the advances in Quantum Physics to explore human psychology and its role, much more active and participatory than previously believed, in the creation of reality.  The question is posed early in the film,  'How can we continue to see the world as real if the self that is determining it as real is intangible?'  Quantum Physics is described as the 'science of possibilities,'  a discipline that begins to blend into a very real and humbling mysticism the further one pursues it."

The Bottom Line:

There are widely divergent conflicting beliefs°   about the answers to these questions, and there are no provable answers.°   Thus, the question,  "Is abortion right or wrong?,  belongs the realm of religion and philosophy where it has been hotly debated for centuries.   

In a free society, beliefs about reality, including guesswork, conjecture, speculation, and  Medieval religious fairytales°  are not the basis for passing secular laws  which force one group's religious beliefs onto everyone else.   Attempting to do so clearly violates our God-granted right of self-determination and our Constitutionally guaranteed right to religious freedom!