To: Solon who wrote (18697 ) 7/19/2001 12:34:17 PM From: TimF Respond to >>>Am I to understand by your confusion that you don't have any idea of the The possibility of a human being born is not significantly different between the actual moment of conception, and the nanosecond before conception. Are you not aware that a fertilized egg is more than a potential homo sapiens--that it is potentially anything? Approximately 75 % of the time it will spontaneously abort, and it will combine with other substances to become other things. But your opposition to abortion is not based on supernatural beliefs in God or ensoulment. Your belief is that the fertilized egg has a "potential" which overrides the RIGHTS of the mother. You believe that you have an interest in her body, and that your interest in the potential of the human DNA she carries trumps her interest in the potential of her own life, and in her ownership of her organs. I don't understand on what basis you would oppose, say, rape then. I am easily strong enough to forcibly impregnate a woman and thus cause my sperm to potentiate toward the making of a human being. Any argument that my sperm was not potentially human could be easily disproved in 9 months. You don't believe in souls so on what basis do you arbitrarily decide that conception is a good point for you to play police officer with a woman's body? There is nothing magical about conception for those not holding out the supernatural belief in souls.
