04-18-2008, 10:03 PM
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Originally Posted by JeffLV
I compare this to the situation of a person in a coma. They have a potential to come to consciousness, so we protect their life.
Likewise, a sperm and egg, once they come together, has a similar strong potential to come to consciousness, possibly even more so than some comatose people.
This potential exists only when the sperm and egg comes together. Thus a sperm and egg separate are not a person.
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When the sperm and egg come together, the egg is fertilised. Do you believe this is a potential life? If so, is it a life like yours, or different?
I guess we can also determine whether a comatose person is likely to wake up from the coma, more than we can say for sure whether that embryo will become a fetus, or fetus become baby, etc.
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Last edited by Makedde; 04-18-2008 at 10:04 PM.
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