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To: Arthur McGowan
But a womans egg, fertilised in the lab, is obviously not a being with rights.

"Why is that obvious?" - AG


-- You think you have the power to proscute the lab tech for murder/manslaughter, if he destroys the egg?

And, if the fetilized egg has rights, is the government obligated to find a womb to protect that egg till birth & then raise the baby to adulthood?

20 posted on 07/13/2002 5:11:13 PM PDT by tpaine
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To: tpaine
-- You think you have the power to proscute the lab tech for murder/manslaughter, if he destroys the egg?

And, if the fetilized egg has rights, is the government obligated to find a womb to protect that egg till birth & then raise the baby to adulthood?

Of course no one is going to prosecute lab techs for murder. No, the government does not have the obligation to "find a womb" for every fertilized egg now in storage.

That doesn't change the fact that each fertilized egg is a human being, and that killing him or her is murder.

It is possible to commit murder without being prosecuted for it. It isn't being prosecuted that makes one a criminal; it's committing the crime that makes one a criminal.

70 posted on 07/14/2002 5:04:10 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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