To: terycarl
Like the other posters, you're missing the point. If conception is the legal start of personhood, then a one-celled zygote deserves the same protection as a 2, 4, 8 or whatever celled person. Legally, that means a woman could be charged with manslaughter for having a miscarriage or murder for using the pill. You might think a zygote deserves that level of protection. I might even agree, but you've got to convince a majority of voters to support you. That's my point. Most people, even Christians, aren't willing to treat the death of a freshly fertilized egg, a one-celled zygote, the same as the death of a child.
103 posted on
11/08/2011 9:30:17 PM PST by
CitizenUSA
(What's special about bad? Bad is easy. Anyone can do bad. Aspire to be good!)
To: CitizenUSA
Like the other posters, you're missing the point. If conception is the legal start of personhood, then a one-celled zygote deserves the same protection as a 2, 4, 8 or whatever celled person. Legally, that means a woman could be charged with manslaughter for having a miscarriage or murder for using the pill. You might think a zygote deserves that level of protection. I might even agree, but you've got to convince a majority of voters to support you. That's my point. Most people, even Christians, aren't willing to treat the death of a freshly fertilized egg, a one-celled zygote, the same as the death of a child. I miss nothing. The value of the life of an eighty year old and the life of a 2 celled zygote (1 egg and 1 sperm) are indeed equal. However, for the state to determine that both be treated exactly equally is preposterous. The wording of the Mississippi bill was such that even staunchly pro-life people could, in good conscious, vote against it. Some birth control pills, indeed, cause a fertilized egg to be aborted....if you want to practice birth control, forbidden by the Catholic church and only recently allowed by the protestant church, use a method that prevents fertilization and doesn't kill the baby.
121 posted on
11/08/2011 9:53:03 PM PST by
terycarl
(lurking, but well informed)
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