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To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (124152)	1/29/2001 12:29:47 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

I have no idea what you mean when you tell me that a fertilized ovum is "self-expressing" and "self-actualizing" and that "it leaves us no means to objectively declare it not part of the human family". How exactly does it express itself? It's human. It's alive. So's a blood sample, for that matter. What's different about the fertilized ovum is that it might grow into a baby in 9 months. I say "might" because about 80% don't make it due to natural causes, from what I've read. When it actually becomes a fully human baby is a religious and philosophical position, not a scientific one. Different religions have found different answers to that question.