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Old 04-18-2008, 09:41 PM
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Originally Posted by JeffLV View Post
It's a life, but it's not life with potential to become a person until they come togeather. At that point, it is a dormant person. Just like a person in a coma has a right to have their life looked after even though they have no concious though, so does that sperm and egg as it has the potential to come to conciusness.
So the question asked in the OP was wrong? The question was not "when does life begin" but rather "at what point could a lump of cells be said to potentially become a human being"?
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