Richard Baker wrote:
A cell is not a person. A cell has no rights. A cell does not and should not have rights.So if I were to destroy exactly one cell in your body at a time until none were left then that would be okay? If not, at what stage would it become other than okay?
Rich must understand The Fool's post very differently than I do...
The phrase "... one cell in your body ..." presupposes a (reasonably) complete body. The question "... [would] that ... be okay?" presupposes sentience, the ability to care one way or another.
I think that The Fool was making the point that a fertilized egg is not yet a body, not yet a person, and therefore not entitled (yet) to the rights of a person.
OTOH, by the time it is possible to know that an egg has been fertilized and implanted (and thus an abortion is needed in order to insure that it does not develop further) it is no longer just a single cell . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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