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To: TigerPaw who wrote (243446)	3/28/2002 10:29:39 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Yes. Which is why one should never say: 'human life begins at conception', but rather 'a new human life' begins.... As you point out, both sperm and egg are alive before conjugation... in fact, both descended from a long unbroken line of life... as are the skin cells of your body. Of course, the exact point at which the 'rights of humanity' are granted to any new individual is the question around which this debate revolves. Historically, this question has been concatonated with the moral question of when any new individual is imparted with a soul. Many religious traditions have answered differently the question of when the soul enters the body. Some have said at birth, some puberty, some before birth, some at conception. ...Some have changed their views at various times in history.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (243446)	3/29/2002 4:49:39 AM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

>> Doesn't that imply that sperm and eggs are dead before conception? << jeez, didn't you cover this in school? your body is made up of trillions of living cells. do you consider each one a separate human life? of course not. something can be alive without being a unique human life. sperm and eggs are alive but not human. all humans usually have 46 chromosomes and an egg and sperm only have 23 each. the moment of conception the two pairs of 23 chromosomes are joined and a human life is created, with its own unique genetic code like no other.