"My body was once an *unfertilized* egg, too. "
I make no pretensions to being a trained biologist.
What I do remember from high school biology, however, is that my body was never an unfertilized egg.
Unfertilized eggs were a part of my mother's body -- they had her unique DNA. I was no more an unfertilized egg at one point that I was one of my mother's eyelashes.
When my dad's sperm (also with his unique DNA) united with my mothers ovum, a new creature came into existence -- ME.
One second before fertilization, I did not exist. At conception, a process began that could (and ultimately will be) terminated with my own death.
Please correct me if I am wrong about this.
By the way, the argument that "I was once an unfertilized egg is really just the flip-side of the pro-abortionist canard that if those of us who thin abortion is wrong were truly consistent, we would be out to save all sperm.
> By the way, the argument that "I was once an unfertilized egg is really just the flip-side of the pro-abortionist canard that if those of us who thin abortion is wrong were truly consistent, we would be out to save all sperm.
And of course, if the *anti-abortionists* were consistent, they would be argueign for embryo transplants into themselves rather than abortion. All those frozen IVF-created embryos... can I assume that you (assuming you're male) would pay to have them transplanted in your wife?