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Originally Posted by myopicmouse";p="
the question was would you be repulsed if you saw a dead fertilized egg.
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Repulsed…Yes, if was dead secondary to an elective abortion done as a means of birth control. Saddened...if it was dead secondary to a miscarriage. It is still a life, whether it’s one week gestation or 36 weeks gestation.
These questions you pose are tremendously shallow. So do you base your argument for abortion purely on the physical appearance of the fetus at a particular stage of development? Or, on how much the fetus resembles a grown human? Just because a fetus in early development doesn’t look like a human (with arms, legs, hair, or whatever) doesn’t mean it’s anything less than a human life. |
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Originally Posted by myopicmouse";p="
so you would feel sick if you looked through a microscope and saw a dead egg?
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I would not feel sick if I saw a dead egg through a microscope. An unfertilized human egg is haploid (23 chromosomes). Women pass dead eggs naturally via their menstrual cycle every 28-35 days. If the egg doesn’t get fertilized, it dies.
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could you even tell if it was fertilized or dead?
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A fertilized egg or embryo looks different under a microscope because when the egg is fertilized by the sperm the cells begin dividing rapidly through mitosis to differentiate into the different human organ systems. The number of cells can be identified or counted to determine the age of the embryo. In a dead egg the cell dies and enzymes that are stored inside special organelles are liberated and begin to degrade the cell. These changes can be seen under a microscope. So the answer is YES you could tell.
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would you even be able to tell it was an human egg?
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How does whether or not a person can visually tell the difference between a human female egg and another mammalian female egg under a microscope have any correlation to the issue of abortion? Even being able to identify a FERTILIZED human egg vs. another mammals doesn’t matter. What matters is the FACT that the fertilized human egg is a human life whether a lay person can differentiate it from another mammals embryo or not. You can however differentiate human eggs and embryos from that which is not human via DNA gel electrophoresis. These questions are asinine. What is it that you are arguing again? I forgot. lol.