{"id":28858,"date":"2025-09-23T19:51:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T23:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=28858"},"modified":"2025-09-25T19:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T23:44:06","slug":"when-does-human-life-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/09\/23\/when-does-human-life-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"When does human life begin?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AW092325.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AW092325.jpg\" alt=\"When does human life begin?\" class=\"wp-image-28857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AW092325.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AW092325-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AW092325-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AW092325-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">When does human life begin?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a disputed question, which is why I suspect you&#8217;re asking. Philosophers, theologians, pastors, politicians, doctors, lawyers, and many, many others have possible answers to this question. I&#8217;m feeling more medical than theological today, so I&#8217;ll suggest you start with the Blackwell Companion to Bioethics. To really answer the question, you have to answer what &#8220;human&#8221; means, and what &#8220;life&#8221; means. bit.ly\/bcl-blackwell-bioethics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a disputed question, which is why I suspect you&#8217;re asking. Philosophers, theologians, pastors, politicians, doctors, lawyers, and many, many others have possible answers to this question. I&#8217;m feeling more medical than theological today, so I&#8217;ll suggest you start with the Blackwell Companion to Bioethics. To really answer the question, you have to answer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/09\/23\/when-does-human-life-begin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When does human life begin?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28861,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28858\/revisions\/28861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}