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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Human rights for ova! - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 24-Apr-84 12:30:06 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 24 12:30:06 1984
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> Mr. chambers does not need a theo student to explain why we shouldn't
> consider an ovum on the same level as a zygote.  It's simple biology: an
> ovum has only HALF the number of cromosomes to develop a human being, and
> inherently cannot develop as a human being on its own.  It is certainly
> of human origin, and is certainly alive, but ALL humans have 46 cromosomes,

What an arbitrary distinction!!!  Just as bogus as saying "because a
fetus needs the mother's womb to grow and survive to live on its own,
it's not living".  Hopelessly arbitrary distinctions... :-)

You realize that if ova are given human rights, spermatazoa should have
the same rights (no sex discrimination here!).  In either case, it
would make menstruation and masturbation ("spilling seed") capital crimes.
(Could a woman then use pre-menstrual syndrome as a defense?:-)

[OK, so it wasn't funny...]
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"Oh, don't be such a baby!"	Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr