loriersea said:But you are doing the same thing. You don't believe, I assume, that a sperm has the right to life and that masturbation is genocide. You don't believe that a woman is allowing a child to die every time she menstruates without getting pregnant. You are deciding that human cells--which the sperm and egg are--become a person at the moment of conception. You are making decisions about what being a person is dependent upon, and it is no different from the argument that the development of higher brain activity, or viability, or whatever point one wishes to choose, is the start of personhood.
A sperm and an egg are just cells of the male and female, with the same genetic identity as the cells of the people they came from. Left alone they would never grow or develop.
At conception a total new genetic individual is created, with a unique genetic make-up, who left to itself would develop and grow through all the stages of life. The only way to stop this is to kill that individual human life.
And no. I'm not doing what you are doing - in other words making decisions about when a human life becomes a "person". I have pointed out that every human life is sacred at whatever stage of development. The "person" argument is one that can be used to justify infanticide, racism, euthanasia of the sick, old or infirm. Since it is up to the power elite to decide who a "person" is.
Didn't the US Supreme Court once say Africans weren't people?
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