[freedumb2003]

So if all fertilized eggs are viable humans, then they must all be allowed (forced) to be complete the cycle into becoming a human? That is the position of many of the posters on this thread.

I wasn't sure -- they seem to sidle up to it.

Wow, so close down the reproduction clinics, right? Or force women to have centuplicates?

[jas3]

I wasn't sure -- they seem to sidle up to it.

Wow, so close down the reproduction clinics, right? Or force women to have centuplicates?

Well more consequential is the notion that potential parents who currently screen embryos to find one without a specific terminal genetic problem would be prohibited from doing so under the moral framework proposed by many posters, as the blastosphere *IS* morally (and should be legally) equivalent to an adult human under their moral theories.

My tentative conclusion is that an embryo deserves protection at implantation, not before, and it is not morally equivalent to an adult until it successfully implants. Prior to implantation, the blastosphere is not a child, has no soul (probably), is not conscious, and meets no other ethical or moral tests other than an arbitrary definition of defining life as starting at fertilization rather than before or after.

jas3