To: general_re; Coleus; Remedy; cpforlife.org; Polycarp; hocndoc; Mr. Silverback; Skywalk; ...
Just because a thing is differentiated into various substructures and organs and parts doesn't make it an organism unto itself, and certainly doesn't make it an embryo. Let me be very clear on this point, IT DOES MEAN THAT IS AN INDIVIDUAL, DUDE! IT differentiates those organs and substructures and parts of itself, of its self, its individual body. Taking a haploid cell and stimulating it to reproduce copies of the single cell isn't conceiving an embryonic individual human life. Taking a female ovum with the full complement of 46 chromosomes and electrically stimulating that cell to form an embryonic individual female duplicate of the parent donor is cloning a duplicate individual human life, albeit a likley severely handicapped individual being. That is the point over which we likely disagree: I don't define an embryo as a 'potential' individual, I define that embryo as THE individual in embryo age along the continuum of an individual human being's lifetime begun at the conception; I view any conceiving of an embryonic individual to be experimenting with an individual human being at embryo age for that individual human being.
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04/25/2003 10:01:21 AM PDT by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
To: MHGinTN
So then if this is done via haploid parthenogenesis, which it very likely is, then you don't have a problem with it?
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