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

To: TimF who wrote (81358)	7/19/2009 11:04:42 PM
From: Solon	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"It is a human" is the point" I've asked you to explain why you believe it is a human if human dna is not the point? You've said it several times so you must have a definition of a human which permits you to include a zygote in that category. Do you think that a population census should count zygotes as people so as to accurately reflect how many people live in each country and on the planet??

To: TimF who wrote (81358)	7/19/2009 11:09:35 PM
From: Solon	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Thank you for avoiding answering my post and my honest question to you. I guess you just don't have an answer to the question... Perhaps I have overlooked something critical? Is there something outside of religious dogma (ensoulment and such) which argues the case for allowing society to posit an interest on behalf of a zygote (a zygote that is incapable of any PERSONAL interest) and which thusly diminishes the autonomous rights of the mother? On what basis should any creature without awareness or any personal interest be considered for person-hood? And other than a LACK of awareness, sentience, arms, legs, nervous tissue, brains, minds, and thoughts--indeed a LACK of any and all attributes of a human person other than homo sapien dna...what other lacking, failing, or shortcoming ought to be regarded as compelling reasons for granting PERSONAL rights to this egg--now that we have both agreed that "it has human DNA" was not the point??