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Originally posted by andersensrm
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by Osiris1953
No because they cannot do anything.
Every cell has a function. Unless its going to become an adult, it is not murder.
Would you charge someone who punched you as attempted manslaughter? Or a brain damage case if he punched you in the gut?edit on 30-1-2012 by Gorman91 because: (no reason given)
But a sperm cell, could be seen as something that is going, or has the capability to become an adult. Not by itself of course, but where do we draw the line?.
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by troubleshooter
You have the pill an a condom, if you get pregnant on both, you might as well call him Jesus.
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by tk2dsky
One is an act to create life. The other is an act to destroy life.
At the earliest stages what "could" become a baby is nothing more than a cluster of cells. Nothing more, it doesn't feel, eat, sleep, have features, have organs, feel pain or anything for that matter and if you actually go by the established tenants of what is considered independent "life" it doesn't fit any of them. That is fact.
With that part of your argument negated... which it is, I can only assume your opinion is based more upon your belief in a soul and that a soul inhabits the newly formed cluster, making it morally wrong to destroy that "life."
BTW, my wife could give birth to my son any day now. Though he is now a baby, a human, my boy, he was once nothing more than a cluster of cells, that in all actuality could have turned out to be a blastoderm or some other anomaly. He was not a person. He was not a living being, he was a group of cells growing in my wife... end of story.