To: tpaine; hiredhand
That's why I answered that way. You think you 'know', but the fact is, the lab tech is not a murderer because an egg is not a person. Specious argument. HH, notice he leaves out the "fertilized", above. The latter clause of his statement as constructed is correct: an "egg" is not a person. The 46-chromosome product of the union of a sperm with the ovum IS a person.
tpaine, assuming you meant that a "fertilized" egg is not a person: What, exactly, is the "magic poof moment" at which the "fertilized egg" becomes a human being?
56 posted on
10/26/2004 8:20:07 PM PDT by
Lexinom
("A person's a person no matter how small" - from Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who)
To: Lexinom
Lexinom wrote:
tpaine, assuming you meant that a "fertilized" egg is not a person: What, exactly, is the "magic poof moment" at which the "fertilized egg" becomes a human being?
Sorry Virgina, there is no Santa, and no "magic" point.
See #51 from my take on the Constitutionality of personhood.
58 posted on
10/26/2004 8:41:39 PM PDT by
tpaine
(No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another. - T. Jefferson)
To: Lexinom; MHGinTN
"magic poof moment"
LOL--Don't go getting all technical on me now like MHGinTN does!
63 posted on
10/26/2004 9:40:23 PM PDT by
cpforlife.org
(Birth is one day in the life of a person who is already nine months old.)
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