At 11:59 AM 4/15/2005 -0400, Max wrote: >JDG wrote: > > Let's connect the dots: >> >> -human life begins at conception > >This is scientifically debateable.
Really? This would require the [group of cells] to be something other than human life between the meeting of the sperm and the egg, and the beginning of human life. During this time the [group of cells] would have to be either: a) not human or b) not alive or c) both.
It is well known that a significant fraction (1/3?) of fertilized eggs never make it to a live birth.
>You can debate that the early embryonic stages up to some particular >event (say, brain development) are not much different from any other >organ in a person's body.
Why would brain development distinguish the [group of cells] in question from the mother's body?
How would you apply your definition to other organisms in the mother's body, such as bacteria, parasitic worms, ticks, etc.?
Some have indeed described an embryo as a parasite inside the mother's body, with the obvious implication that eliminating it is no different than eliminating a tapeworm.
>However, for me, or any other guy, this debate is merely intellectual at >best. It is easy for men to make decrees on abortion because they will >never actually experience such a scenario first hand. That's the main >reason I personally support "pro-choice", just because I truly believe >it is not for any man to decide (not the President, not any male member
A-hem!
>of Congress).
I know that some here probably consider many of them to be exactly that . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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