When does life begin?
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| Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz |
There is no question about when life ends. Neither is there any debate on how life ends or can be ended. Rather, the issue is this: When does life begin? But before answering the said key question, it might be both realistic and practical to previously ask not only who can make life begin and why does life begin. Thus stand the three inquiry words “Who?,” “Why?” and “When?”
First: Who makes life begin?
It can be readily granted that men and women can make life begin. It is evident that neither all men nor all women can make life have its beginning. This is even something definite and defined from the known narration of the Good Book: Those brought to living existence is neither “Adam and Adam” nor “Eve and Eve” — but Adam and Eve. In fact, it was only after the living reality of the said pairing of a man and a woman that they were told to “increase and multiply.”
Second: Why does life begin?..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110904com7.html
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