Tom Paine 1949
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So now you are no longer affirming that once fertilized all human eggs with a genetically complete human code are “living human babies” (whether called “toasters” or just “frozen embryos” that will mostly be trashed after contracts expire or used for scientific research or donated to other families) — and are now talking instead of something very different.J-Mac …
You don’t refer to scientific developmental terms used to denote an unborn human zygote, human blastula or frozen human embryo, or distinguish that state of embryonic existence from that of a full term baby, born and universally considered a person under law. Instead you reference an individual “peer-reviewed” opinion piece of an individual NIH doctor. Thought you didn’t trust NIH “experts” shooting off their mouths?
I surely don’t argue that a newly fertilized human egg cell is not necessary (given present technology) for “the start of an individual human life.” Did you think it was the same as a fetal pig embryo? A fetal toaster? A fetal dog or race horse? But it is rationally simply not appropriate to treat it at that early stage as an “unborn human baby” with legal “personhood rights” of its own.
The state shouldn’t have the right to force women (which women?) to gestate it for 9 months, any more than the state should force frozen fertilized embryos to be treated as legal people with a right to live and be born. Perhaps you think that would be a better way to raise soldiers and workers in a new dystopian society?
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