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- From: smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Sue Hasselbring stops short of protecting sperm and egg.
- Message-ID: <36055@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 18:22:42 GMT
- References: <nyikos.728071661@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1993Jan27.075023.3495@netcom.com> <1993Jan28.120202.2174@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu>
- Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
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- In article <1993Jan28.120202.2174@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu>
- hasselbring@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu writes a classic example of fetus
- fanatic logic:
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- >Are you saying that you must have learned something to be human?
- >Even before we learn set theory, we are capable of learning set theory
- >which distinguishes us from other life forms which are not. And a
- >single cell human has the capacity to grow to the point at which that
- >human will have the capacity to learn. Skin cells do not have that
- >capacity. Nor does an unfertilized egg. Thus the death of a skin
- >cell or of an unfertilized egg is distinctly different from the death
- >of a single cell human or 8-cell human. The killing of the latter is
- >murder, the killing of the former is not.
-
- While I understand that a skin cell does not have the capacity in
- question, I fail to understand why you would claim an unfertilized egg
- or sperm does not. Are you in fact claiming that it is the union of
- sperm and egg that makes them sacred? If your Pope declared that
- sperm and egg were sacred, would you support him then? Why not
- declare each sacred and begin forcing all persons to protect those
- precious sperm and eggs? Why should we base state intervention on
- your arbitrary decision that fertilized eggs are sacred but sperm and
- unfertilized eggs are not? How about if you decide whether a
- fertilized egg in your body is sacred and other women be allowed to
- make that same choice for themselves?
-
- SJM
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