Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cbscc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbsck!cbscc!pmd From: pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul Dubuc) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Re: If life begins at conception, th Message-ID: <4182@cbscc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 13:23:04 EST Article-I.D.: cbscc.4182 Posted: Mon Nov 26 13:23:04 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 27-Nov-84 04:22:38 EST References: <2152@stolaf.UUCP>, <71400002@trsvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories , Columbus Lines: 17 From a biological standpoint, it seems to me that sex cells only become an individual, a human being, when a certain specific event takes place: conception. After that it grows on its own. If a human life begins at conception it is not because of its potential to be human life, that potential has been fulfilled. In this case I see no logical connection between protecting egg and sperm (which are not human beings in themselves) and protecting a conceived human being. At any rate the question seems moot when dealing with elective abortion. Most women aren't even sure they are pregnant until they are several weeks pregnant. If a human life doesn't begin at conception, does it begin when the woman knows she's pregnant? When *does* it begin? Are pro-choicers trying to answer that question, or just muddy the waters? -- The unaborted, Paul Dubuc cbscc!pmd