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Posted by JayMan on Tue Mar 29 10:07:55 2011, in response to Re: Finally, Someone Gets Cancer Who Deserves It, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Wed Mar 28 20:34:32 2007. Human life begins at conception (or perhaps more accurately a few hours after that when the zygote begins to divide). Personhood begins much, much later (long after conception but before birth). It is personhood, the ability to feel, think, imagine -- the things that make us human -- that we are concerned with when we talk about human rights (and this is why we don't grant these rights to non-human animals). An embryo, and for that matter a fetus for much of its life is just a clump of cells and tissues, respectively -- and not a person in its own right (yet). It is enormous wrong to block research to help persons who are alive and suffering because of an unwillingness to work on clumps of cells. |
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