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Originally Posted by JinnKai
I similarly reject the position of pro-life individuals who believe that the cells, even in a "human-like" arrangement, somehow constitute "human life", particularly at the moment of CONCEPTION! I fail to see how that a position like that could coexist with a belief that antibiotics are an acceptable practice?
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Jinny my boy, its great to have strong beliefs and all but its best you understand them a bit better.
Equating pregnancy to a biological infection requiring antibiotics is perhaps the most unconvincing argument I've heard on the issue, well ever.
A pregnancy involves a mothers and fathers DNA, fusing, recombining, shuffling, to form a new human. We are designed to be good at this, it is a requirement for the species survival. A fetus is just about half mother half father, in DNA, if you don't count the mitochondria. It isn't a foreign organism sapping the mothers strength it IS her and the father.
The whole parasite view cute as a joke, but wrong biologically. Are eggs chicken parasites? Seeds plant parasites? Having children is simply a function of the organism human or otherwise.
Mind you I'm not arguing about the morality of the whole thing. Personally I think abortion is an excellent way to purge the gene pool of some anti-survival traits, but lets get our biology correct.