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Originally Posted by Kyres
The fundamental philosophical argument in favor of abortion is that reproductive cells are not people. The argument is over the extent to which this is true and the duration over which it is true. The fact that it is true to some extent is taken as given by almost everyone.
Very few in the modern world call male masturbation an act of genocide, in spite of the death of millions of sperm cells.
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A fertilized embryo is not a collection of reproductive cells. It is the union of two sex cells. It has its own DNA
And of course masturbation is not a genocide. The sperm needs an egg to create life. Human cells die everyday, that is not genocide