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goodluck

07/14/07 2:20 PM

#278676 RE: Razorbucks #278669

1. A blastula and an embryo aren't human beings. The law sensibly recognizes this by effectively allowing abortion on demand during the first 3 months, and restricting it more tightly as each trimester goes by.

2. There are times when the choice is the mother or the embryo. That choice isn't one for the state to make. Some mothers/fathers will choose to go through with the pregnancy anyway, others won't. It's their choice to make.

3. It is very clear that all embryos/fetuses aren't made "equal." Some are clearly deformed, sometimes horribly so. "Nature" makes mistakes--what a concept. Life is full of difficult choices--sometimes they are excruciatingly difficult choices. Sometimes the state can be involved in these difficult choices, sometimes it should leave them to the individuals who are most affected by them. I've seen families destroyed by having to care for infants/toddlers/children who were born with some sort of genetic defect and who would have been allowed to die at birth or shortly thereafter in the not very distant past, but today are kept alive through the (very expensive) "miracle" of modern medicine. I've seen other families devote resources to etiher fixing or adjusting for the defect, and occasionally succeeding. Good for them, I applaud them. Guess what, not many families have those resources.

4. Those people like you who want to make blanket statements about the "rightness" or the "wrongness" about the truly difficult choices in life are part of what is wrong in political life in the US today.
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nwsun

07/14/07 4:03 PM

#278709 RE: Razorbucks #278669

its my understanding that an embryo is unfertilized. a zygote is a fertilized embryo.
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nwsun

07/14/07 4:33 PM

#278711 RE: Razorbucks #278669

to take my point further... at some point the radical right nuts will consider sperm and unfertilized eggs potential life forms and outlaw any form of discharge thats not initiated by physiological body function as in menstruation, miscarriage, wet dreams, or sex for procreation purposes only... in other words, at what point are you and the absurd side going to say that "M word" is unnatural and should be outlawed as its wasting a chance at life? isnt self induced male spillage causing at least one less opportunity for life to begin. how dare you waste that precious opportunity for life..you know thats where your side will take the fight next... isnt that where the "gonna go blind" stories started... weve been down this absurd avenue before...you just dont want to be oopposed to anything you indulge in...