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To: ohioWfan

Fine.

Is a zygote a human being? No, because it can divide into two zygotes that will eventually form into TWO human beings, twins. Sometimes they divide again to form quads. If a human life begins at conception, how does the 2nd human life of the twins form if it did not form at the moment conception? The only explanation is that an individual life forms sometime after conception during the gestation process.

In fact, the idea of the "moment of conception" is a misnomer since conception is a process, not an event.

A human life is an individual and indivisible lifeform. Therefore from a strictly biological sense, a zygote is not an individual human life.


482 posted on 07/19/2006 7:19:41 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (Man Law: You Poke It, You Own It)
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To: Lunatic Fringe; ohioWfan; GatorGirl; maryz; afraidfortherepublic; Antoninus; Aquinasfan; livius; ...
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A human life is an individual and indivisible lifeform.
So inoperable Siamese Twins are not human?
486 posted on 07/19/2006 7:22:48 PM PDT by narses (St Thomas says “lex injusta non obligat”)
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To: Lunatic Fringe
You never answered my question about your using religion against me.

How do you defend that using your 'belief' system?

487 posted on 07/19/2006 7:23:15 PM PDT by ohioWfan (PROUD Mom of an Iraqi Liberation VET! THANKS, son!!!!)
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