Why is age measured from birth instead of conception?

[Anonymous]

If you’ve ever studied embryology, you’ll know that life doesn’t really begin at conception. It’s at 8 weeks that it becomes a fetus.

[Anonymous]

A fetus is a fetus. It’s not a self sufficient person.

It cannot live on its own.

[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.

Actually, there are zygote and embryo stages before fetus. After 8 weeks it is considered a fetus.

[Anonymous]

Survival. In some developing countries birth is not registered until several months after delivery. My parents are both 4 months older than their birth certificates indicate. They have friends who are a year older.

[Anonymous]

The other thing of course is that defining conception is actually not simple. There's a reason they date pregnant from the date of last period, they can get a clear date. But that is of course a date from before someone became pregnant. Date someone had sex isn't accurate, date of fertilization can be up to a week later, date of implantation is well after that. So just defining conception isn't a remotely clear concept.

[Anonymous]

“Happy Conception Day to you
Happy Conception Day to you
Happy Conception Day dear Michael
Happy Conception Day to you”

Yeah, no. Just doesn’t work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Conception is when life begins.

Because it is not "when life begins".

Learn science and shut up.

[Anonymous]

I’ll play along. How could you realistically ever tell this if couples are actively trying to conceive over the course of a few days to a week? That’s why. We would be making up birthdays.

And don’t even start thinking about those who aren’t actively trying and the pregnancy just happens. Then they have to go back and try to figure out which day of the month it happened on? Just no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ll play along. How could you realistically ever tell this if couples are actively trying to conceive over the course of a few days to a week? That’s why. We would be making up birthdays.

And don’t even start thinking about those who aren’t actively trying and the pregnancy just happens. Then they have to go back and try to figure out which day of the month it happened on? Just no.

Well and of course the concept of celebrating birthdays is far older than the understanding of conception. The whole understanding of the science of ovulation and implantation is quite new. There's a reason older texts discussed "quickening" in such detail, before modern medicine, being able to feel movement was a confirmation of pregnancy.

[Anonymous]

OP is a troll and stupid and controlling and anti women.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Judaism is pro-choice by mandate. So the only reason one would be surprised by scripture suggesting a pro-choice position is if you ignore Judaism.

[Anonymous]

Koreans used to measure everyone up each 1/1. One big birthday for the year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Conception is when life begins.

No it isn’t.

Which is why the life cycle 🔄 only begins after one is born.

[Anonymous]

KKKaroline’s child’s life began outside of the sanctity of marriage.

[Anonymous]

The fact that this is an actual question that has to be crowd sourced is empirical evidence of the dumbing down of tout le monde

Why is cow’s milk bad for infants?

Why should you not put salt on slugs?

If you’ve had a hysterectomy and still bleed, is that bad?

Can I feed my dog grapes?