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To: Squeako

Most fertilized ova never implant; of those that do, about a third to a half fail to grow. Only 10-15% of fertilized ova are capable of growing into a full-term baby.

This is one reason I don’t like using fertilization as a marker of the “beginning” of life. The fact that there is nothing unalive at any point is another: living human ovum+living human sperm=living human zygote (even if it dies within hours).

Implantation, to my mind, is a logical time to extend the full protection afforded to born human beings to the unborn human.

A woman who wants to avoid pregnancy has a number of options that prevent fertilization and implantation. There is absolutely no excuse for not using those options.

Re: “...because abortions aren’t performed on people who are not pregnant.”

That is not quite true. I’ve heard that abortion mills sometimes lie to prospective clients about the results of pregnancy tests, so as to get them to undergo the procedure anyway. It’s all about the money.


23 posted on 12/31/2013 6:18:36 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom
I think we agree that the point is to extend protection of life to the genetically unique yet-to-be born from an abortion of convenience. Beyond that it is somewhat of a biological semantic exercise.

An abortion can't be performed on a person who is not pregnant, whether a clinic pretends to do it or not. Like a mechanic charging a person for changing the turn signal fluid; it doesn't exist, charges or not.

25 posted on 12/31/2013 8:14:32 AM PST by Squeako (The radicals are the wolves. The moderates are the wolves in sheep's clothing.)
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