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| Quote (thordaddy @ April 10 2006,16:48) | | Note: If you believe human life can't be defined including its individual beginning then nothing I say will have much impact. |
I never said that "human life" cannot be defined. Of course it can; people make up definitions all the time! Some of those definitions do not include undifferentiated clumps of cells. The Supreme Court defined it as having viability outside the womb. Arguing about definitions is pointless.
The real issue is, what should be the limits allowed in terminating pregnancy. Some believe that it is wrong to prevent pregnancy before conception, i.e. contraception. In some cultures, postnatal abortion was apparently accepted.
If you want to define human life as beginning at conception, that's fine, but that's not a good argument against allowing morning-after pills, embryonic stem cell research, therapeutic cloning, in vitro reproduction, etc.
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