On 15/07/2006, at 3:43 PM, jdiebremse wrote:
We weren't discussing abortion.
Yes we are. We are talking about conceiving a number of children,
and "eliminating" the children of the undesired sex.
As I pointed out elsewhere, this is the main assumption of
difference. If you regard an undifferentiated pre-implantion ball of
cells as a "child", then of course you're going to have a different
view to those who think humanity and sentience and so on are sliding
scales (that an adult has more rights than a child has more rights
than an infant than a foetus than an embryo than a zygote than an ovum).
A blastocyst is not a child to most people, John. Many, possibly most
according to some studies, zygotes *fail to implant* and "die" in the
toilet or soaked up in a panty-liner. The wastage is naturally huge.
Clearly, until they're able to implant, they're disposable,
*biologically* speaking.
Charlie
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