[DougShrapnel]

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Your analogies don't work at all. Are sperm cells and skin cells "alive"? Yes in the technical sense they are alive. However, they are merely parts of a living organism, namely the human in question. The same goes for unfertilized egg cells. Then when fertilization occurs, parts from two different human beings combine to form an individual separate from both the father and the mother, so it's sensible to differentiate between this new cell and the previous ones. That's why this is not the same as skin cells or sperm cells being killed.

[/ QUOTE ] It's arbitrary, it makes just as much sense to distuguish based on ammount of genetic material as not having concern for gm. Fertilization is a entirely arbitrary point that one puts special place on person hood to. It's still just cells. GM does not a person make.

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Now the question becomes whether or not that entity is worthy of protection from destruction. Some may phrase this as whether that entity has achieved personhood. That is the key divide between those for and against abortion.

[/ QUOTE ] I wish people were that sensible. Not because of abortion but because of stem cells.