if fertilized eggs have legal rights, why not UNfertilized eggs?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because a woman's body trashes its own unfertilized egg every month.

It does that with fertilized eggs too.

Every month? Or only the ones that are not right? Biology. It's what's for dinner.

Before you start waving your 7th grade biology exam results around, you may want to define what "the ones that are not right" means. You seem to be indulging in the tautology that if it's spontaneously aborted, then the egg was "not right", therefore only eggs that are "not right" are aborted.

As the Church Lady once said, "How convenient."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because a fertilized egg has all the material that makes a unique human. An unfertilized egg does not.

No. It does not. It needs a uterus and an endocrine environment suitable for development. It's not in there developing on it's own. There's a complicated feedback process with the woman's body. The fertilized egg needs all that additional pushing (and taking) to develop. This is why we can't just grow human beings from fertilized eggs in test tubes. For a human being you need sperm, egg, and healthy uterus.

I think PP may be confusing human eggs with sea turtle eggs...

[Anonymous]

My understanding of the right to life is that it is the potential that must be protected, even though the life in question does not yet have any of the aspects of life that we value as sentient human beings. Since every sperm has the potential of uniting with an egg, and every egg with a sperm, isn't it important to protect that potential?

So when God's will is manifest, i.e. when a man or woman is attracted to one of the opposite sex, shouldn't we all be followers of Mourdock and protect the right of that egg and that sperm to unite, and not let some unwilling future parent block God's will? "No" is an unGodly response to the holy question: Hey babe, how about we get it on?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because a fertilized egg has all the material that makes a unique human. An unfertilized egg does not.

In that case, the Catholic Church should not have such a problem with condoms.