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

Forum Index » Political Discussion

Reply to "if fertilized eggs have legal rights, why not UNfertilized eggs?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because a fertilized egg has all the material that makes a unique human.  An unfertilized egg does not.

[/quote]

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. [/quote]

Yeah, that's what it needs right now.  But I expected that in the not too distant future that won't be the case.

Babies born at 30 weeks gestation used to be hopeless...now they pretty much all live.  24 weeks used to be seen as the limit of viability, now more than half 23 weekers live.  Many 22 weekers have lived.  The line of viability keeps moving back in pregnancy.  Science will overcome the need for a healthy uterus.  But you will always need a full set of DNA.  Even for a cloned child there will be a full set of DNA, not just an egg. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics