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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Don't tell the sperm. They're alive, they're human, and they're full of hope.
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No shit. Taken to its furthest logical conclusion, the pro-life argument presumes that any building block of what later becomes a human being is protected. Under their logic, the sandwich a pregnant woman is eating can conceivably be considered "protected matter." Now, of course, when you throw this curveball at them, they start defining conception - an event as arbitrary and random (lord knows its occurance is more often random than planned) a date as any trimester start or end date - as "the date life begins". Bullshit. You can't pick a date and say "life begins here" and then tell someone else he can't do the same thing and sssign the same degreee of credibility to his chosen date.
You can't claim the moral high ground while talking out off both sides of your mouth.
