Why is age measured from birth instead of conception?

[Anonymous]

Conception is when life begins.

[Anonymous]

No

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Conception is when life begins.

True, but conception date is estimated. Birth date is certain and easily recorded.

[Anonymous]

I’ll bite. They don’t even measure gestational age during pregnancy from conception, it’s measured from your last menstrual period. So technically, the clock starts even before conception.

But also conception is hard to pinpoint and birth is more definite.

And also, you know, when life begins.

[Anonymous]

Because the whole world doesn’t really need to know when exactly my partner and I had sex!

[Anonymous]

Some Asian countries used to do this not too long ago.

[Anonymous]

Please move this nonsense to the Religion forum.

[Anonymous]

Japan measures age from conception.

[Anonymous]

When you're talking about preemies, they will use expected due date as a measure for things like milestones.

As someone who's had miscarriages, though, no, conception is not the same thing as birth, not even close.

[Anonymous]

At conception, you are a fetus, inside a womb.

It’s life but not totally. There are other factors.

Yeah, take this over to religion or even politics. You are stirring the pot.

[Anonymous]

"Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature" (Genesis 2:7, ESV)

Abrahamic religions are very clear that life begins upon the first breath. You do not breather in your mother’s womb, hence you are not alive.

Only in recent years have politicized “Christian” phonies spread the heresy that “life begins at conception.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Conception is when life begins.

Agree, child support for men who get women pregnant and then abandon them should start then too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Conception is when life begins.

Think about the tax ramifications of that a minute.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At conception, you are a fetus, inside a womb.

It’s life but not totally. There are other factors.

Yeah, take this over to religion or even politics. You are stirring the pot.

At conception, you are cells dividing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature" (Genesis 2:7, ESV)

Abrahamic religions are very clear that life begins upon the first breath. You do not breather in your mother’s womb, hence you are not alive.

Only in recent years have politicized “Christian” phonies spread the heresy that “life begins at conception.”

Pro Choice based on scripture.
This is interesting.