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As far as the way the question was handled by the radio personality guy....doesn't surprise me. That seems sort of standard for a lot of the guys on radio, left or right. I wouldn't be surprised to hear Hannity or Glen Beck do it, or Sam Seder or Mike Malloy. You're behind the mic, you've got all the control.
As to the merits of the question posed, I think the question is perfectly legitimate and could be useful to help evaluate one's position on the relative "human-ness" of a zygote vs. a child. I don't think it's the full scale KO that the caller invisioned it being, or that the radio guy obviously was afraid it was. I think that you can take a position that you value the child's life more, and still maintain that wanton destruction of the zygotes is unethical. Sort of like if you asked me if I wanted you to cut off my penis or my thumb, and it *had* to be one or the other. Well shit, take my thumb. That doesn't mean I'm advocating for everyone to start cutting off their thumbs. I think that's essentially what Seaver said, I suppose.
On the general discussion about abortion, hopefully its not a threadjack in light of the above posts - I personally strugge with this one a lot. I'm not sure I'd like to be involved in a decision to get an abortion, but that ambiguity that willravel is talking about makes me land of the side of choice. I definately don't view the fertilized egg or fetus as a "person" until after birth. I don't know at what point I'd actually have reservations about destroying the vessel that would eventually contain a human spirit / soul. I guess I ultimately see it as a highly specialized organ of the females body, until after birth.
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