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Politics : Evolution
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To: Greg or e who wrote (61547)10/30/2014 3:19:09 AM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) of 69300
 
You're ranting and raving like a demented imbecilic. Take a breath, soldier...

I refer you to Message 29781655

And I will just add that everything in the universe is potential human life. You may have heard that all life was once the bodies of stars. So in that respect one can assert (if one so chooses) that everything is sacred.

So talking about potential this and potential that just gets potentially circular.

All life competes for existence. So as humans we are charged with the task of how best to promote, firstly, survival and secondly, happiness. We have found over thousands of years of trial and error combined with directed thought that a recognition of certain fundamental rights leads to a most manageable (and what we call fair) administration of community. We cannot grant the same rights to the chicken as we do to ourselves because we eat the chicken. Simple.

And we do not grant rights to eggs (fertilised or not). It doesn't matter whether WE call it a morula and then a blastocyst and then an embryo and fetus. These are just names. What matters is that we do not call it a human person. We have decided that human persons have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We have decided that it is illogical to consider a blastocyst as having such rights. By the way--most blastocysts do not last the 10 days required to attach to the endometrium. These "people" as you call them die by the millions every day with nobody ever the wiser. The difference (after the 10 days when the blastocyst has attached) is that the woman will become aware of her pregnancy and, if it is unwanted--may decide to terminate her pregnancy--or not.

And none of what she does is any of your business--nor of mine.

Finally, I am a strong advocate of the morning after pill in every medicine cabinet where any possibility of an unwanted pregnancy exists. This will prevent the (already unlikely) possibility that the blastocyst will attach and lead to difficulties down the road.
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