David S., it’s generally accepted, that:
1. A fertilized hen’s egg will hatch into a baby chick.
2. when a tom cat fertilizes a lady cat, the result is kittens.
3. When a momma gorilla’s ovum is fertilized, it will eventually become a baby gorilla (and will receive a lot more protection than a human fetilized egg will).
4. And, when a human woman becomes pregnant, she will give birth to. . . (Check one)
Were you under the impression that human females regularly give birth to things that aren’t human? Alarm clocks maybe, or chickens, or sham-wows?
If a fertilized human egg isn’t human. . . well, what is it exactly? A human embryo carries complete human DNA. If not aborted, it will be born, grow into a young boy or girl, who will develop into a youth, then into a young man or woman. . . unless somebody decides they’re “Not a human being”.
When do babies become human? When the mom says so? When the doctor delivers them? When their parents decide they’ll keep them?
(And, no, I don’t think every sperm is sacred. Sperms are sperm. They aren’t developing human beings).
I don’t want to control anybody’s body. Women have the right to control their own bodies. They don’t—repeat—they don’t have the right to control somebody else’s body. They don’t, say, have the right to toss Grandma out the window, because she’s close to death, so she may as well get closer, so we can all get her inheritance. She doesn’t have the right to murder her husband, because his body stands in the way of her getting his insurance, so she can control her own body even more successfully.
She doesn’t have the right to kill her two-year old toddler, because the kid’s a nuisance, and interfering with her new boyfriend.
