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To: Owen
Someone who thinks they are “a conservative” will say “life begins at conception”. But this was not the original definition of “pro life”. Originally, “pro life” opposed contraception as unnatural. Worse, now, the definition of “conception” is not clear. The egg membrane and sperm don’t have an interface. The membrane’s thickness has a measurement. The sperm can be partially thru or not thru at all or entirely thru. Because it is entirely thru does not mean the DNA transfer has taken place. So . . . what is conception? What is the precise moment of it? At what instant in time did it occur and were it interrupted amid that process, is that abortion? The point being . . . it’s all relative.

Sophistry at it's very best. We don't need to know the "instant at time" that conception takes place to know that after conception a a new human being has been conceived. Moreover, except for the morning after pill, all induced abortions take place after the woman knows she has conceived.

Good sophistry though as far as sophistry goes.

19 posted on 05/11/2008 8:53:17 AM PDT by jwalsh07 (El Nino is climate, La Nina is weather.)
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To: jwalsh07

Oooh. A label.

Sort of like “conception”.


20 posted on 05/11/2008 11:41:26 AM PDT by Owen
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