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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (146628)4/29/2002 2:01:18 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1583520
 
Any living being is a member of a species. The "combination of the egg and sperm" is a member of ours or it is a member of another species. Would you say it is the second?

It resembles a human being because that is what a human being looks like at that stage of development.


Tim, the embryo is the seed from which a human develops. A human and an embryo are as different as the tulip and the bulb from which it comes......they may share similar DNA but they are different entities.

An embryo bears slight physical resemblance to a human......furthermore it has none of a human's functions........it can't breathe, think, walk, write etc. By your definition, if an embryo is considered human, then so must the sperm and the egg be considered human as well.

FWIW, that's my take on it.

ted
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