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To: Ellesu

What if the abortion is a zygote? Will the zygote get a death certificate?


10 posted on 12/07/2004 1:00:28 PM PST by Imaverygooddriver (I`m a very good driver and I approve this message.)
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To: Imaverygooddriver

"What if the abortion is a zygote? Will the zygote get a death certificate?"

A zygote is a biological term used to describe a stage of development in the continium from conception to birth. The new life undergoes development in a continium . . . the new life does not "jump" from stage to stage.

We are talking about a human life; the zygote is an arbitrarily defined stage in the development OF that life. It is not a thing in itself. Arbitrary in that you could call it something else; you could define the stages of development in a different manner entirely than the present biological conventions . . .

For example: you passed through that stage of life. You were you a day before, and a day later.


39 posted on 12/07/2004 2:14:15 PM PST by AMDG&BVMH
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