To: ckca
The pill terminates human life. Now that's the question, isn't it? When does a human being begin? Most people, I think, would not consider a small cluster of cells, at most 72 hours old, to be human. It may be alive but it doesn't yet meet the requirements for being human.
At some point in the development of that cluster of cells (upon achieving sentience, maybe) it becomes human. A few hours after conception, it's not there yet.
127 posted on
12/18/2003 1:33:25 PM PST by
Modernman
(I am Evil Homer, I am Evil Homer....)
To: Modernman
Most people, I think, would not consider a small cluster of cells, at most 72 hours old, to be human. It may be alive but it doesn't yet meet the requirements for being human.
Having unique DNA and that DNA is human, those "clusters of cells" are really very tiny humans.
128 posted on
12/18/2003 1:37:23 PM PST by
Desdemona
(Kempis' Imitation of Christ on-line! http://www.leaderu.com/cyber/books/imitation/imitation.html)
To: Modernman
You are absolutely wrong. But you assert your opinion strongly ...
129 posted on
12/18/2003 1:39:09 PM PST by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
To: Modernman
Most people, I think, would not consider a small cluster of cells, at most 72 hours old, to be human.If not human, what is it?
You and I both began life as first a fertilized egg then a small cluster of cells then eventually what we are today.
I assure you, since conception, I have been fully human.
On the other hand, you could argue that you were never and are not now human.
Some would believe your rhetoric, but I would fight to save your right to your human life, then as now, despite your ignorance of the scientific objective fact of when human life begins.
133 posted on
12/18/2003 1:52:40 PM PST by
ckca
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