To: weikel
You've mix the 'metaphors'. First you deny the characterization 'individual human life' is present immediately following fecundation, but you've changed your focus to 'personhood' ... No nerve and brain development mean a Blastocyst is not a person yet. Personhood is a subjective characterization, as evidenced by the legal notion that an American citizen comes into view with birth.
56 posted on
01/31/2003 12:00:44 PM PST by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
To: MHGinTN
A Blastoclyst is potential life but not life itself. Thats a reductio ad absurdium. The really hardcore people hate "seed spilling" too.
57 posted on
01/31/2003 12:03:12 PM PST by
weikel
(We will prevail in peace and freedom from fear, by the purity of our natural fluids)
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