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To: dirtboy

The point is, when is it a human being???

I believe the fine line between what is a human life and what is not a human life is the developmental stage where it goes from a zygote (embryo) into a fetus (an unborn human).

You can freeze an embryo for decades (probably longer), you can implant it into another human that was not the mother. You cannot do that with a fetus.

A fetus is a living person, and an embryo is not.


333 posted on 07/19/2006 1:51:20 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (Man Law: You Poke It, You Own It)
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To: Lunatic Fringe
The point is, when is it a human being???

Ah, so now you move the goal posts. Again.

I believe the fine line between what is a human life and what is not a human life is the developmental stage where it goes from a zygote (embryo) into a fetus (an unborn human).

I believe it is a human live at conception, since it has its own unique DNA that is fully capable of growing into a fully developed organism.

You can freeze an embryo for decades (probably longer), you can implant it into another human that was not the mother. You cannot do that with a fetus.

So? It does not make the zygote any less human. We all were zygotes once.

A fetus is a living person, and an embryo is not.

And once again, you are dehumanizing a zygote in order to rationalize killing it. Which is exactly what genocidal regimes have done - dehumanized other races to rationalize killing them. That is a non-religious argument against your position - the danger of the language involved towards human life.

336 posted on 07/19/2006 1:55:04 PM PDT by dirtboy (Glad to see the ink was still working in Bush's veto pen, now that he wisely used it on this bill)
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