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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: thames_sider who wrote (19119)	7/24/2001 9:40:11 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

An embryo is a just a human being at a particularly primitive stage of development. It has a full complement of chromosomes, and will, if implanted, spontaneously gestate. It is not like a sperm, which is not a completed human organism, nor like a clone- sample, which requires artificial laboratory procedures to make into something. Even supposing that one wanted to distinguish between levels of development, and say that the embryo, though a human organism, is too primitive to be a human being, the matter is sufficiently disputable, and the humanity of the embryo is more emphatic than just a bag of cells, so that at least a sense of gravity should be expected in making decisions in this area.