[TheAngryClam]

Look back at the argument that jwalsh07 was trying to make about aspirin being regulated on the grounds of a high school vs. parental notification.

I reject his comparison.

[Torie]

I think John was trying to make the point that existing law lacked well, rational coherency, under any standard. I don't think he was attempting to set forth some grand unified principle as to what should be. But I did. I think state laws should where sensible and reasonable, foster non abusive parents obtaining knowledge about what their children are doing.

[jwalsh07]

I reject his comparison.

No problem, if we've accomplished anything at all here, we've identified you as a statist of the first order.

[MHGinTN]

Pardon the intrusion, but your use of 'fertilized egg' is grossly in error. Once the first cell division occurs with the zygote, there is no longer an 'egg' ... the oocyte of human fertilization is a haploid cell that ceases to exist once fusion of its 23 chromosomes occurs with the 23 chromosomes brought in through the oocyte's zona pellucida (and you might want to use oocyte, since human women aren't hens). As many as eight to twenty cell divisions before the individual human being in embryo age makes it through implantation (that's a progression ... one divides to make two, two divide to make four, four divide to make eight, etc).