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Originally posted by Not Me
I wouldn't base it simply on the number of chromosomes. Down's syndrome people have 47 chromosomes, that is why they have the problems that they do. Yet they are human beings. But there are no human beings with only 23 chromosomes. My kidneys have 46 chromosomes and the chromatin is human chromatin. But my kidney is not a human being. So I would treat the number of chromosomes as one piece of evidence that helps to determine whether a living being is a human or not.
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Sperm is human. Is sperm a human? I don't think so. But like a fetus, sperm can -- under favorable conditions -- become a baby. I'm not hearing an explanation for why it is that women are generally obliged to help fertilized eggs become babies, but not obliged to help sperm become babies. Maybe it's just "intuitive."
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