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An human egg can only grow if it somehow combines with a sperm, a human child can only grow if it somehow combines with food. The fact is life and death surrou
by Buttons840 4y ago
An human egg can only grow if it somehow combines with a sperm, a human child can only grow if it somehow combines with food.
The fact is life and death surround us. A single bacteria is roughly as amazing as all the rest of the cosmos combined (as far as we've seen). Each human egg and sperm contain great potential, if only the conditions are right, if only they combine with their environment in the right way. Yet death is everywhere. The miracle of life is destroyed so elsewhere it can thrive.
I'm not convinced losing a single human egg, fertilized though it may be, is especially tragic. At some point it is worth protecting with force and violence (because that's what we're debating in this thread), but not when it's only a few cells.
- anon291 4y ago> a human child can only grow if it somehow combines with food. Indeed, and in the United States, it is a crime for a mother or father (or even most random adults) to neglect a child. The kidney argument is often used to make the case that a woman should not have to carry a child. However, this argument falls flat. If you find an abandoned child, you actually... have to take care of it. If you don't, you can be imprisoned. If you're the parent, you'll be imprisoned for even longer. You have a basic duty to care for children, even if not a parent. > I'm not convinced losing a single human egg, fertilized though it may be, is especially tragic. I can find a lot of people whose death I would not find particularly tragic. The law -- thank goodness -- doesn't follow the whims of anon291.