Topic: Abortion
Quote: The zygote is the cell formed when the sperm fertilises the egg. The zygote has no brain, it has no conciousness.\nYou have two tables, one with a small test tube which you know holds a microscopically small living zygote, and another table with a live baby.\nYou are told that one of them will be destroyed and you have just two seconds to decide which, or both will be destroyed. Without a seconds thought I would immediately point in the direction of the zygote, and save the life of the baby.\nExtreme pro-lifers on the otherhand would probably end up killing the baby or both via indecision and inability to make a choice in just 2 seconds. That's the morality of pro-life for you: the inability to realise that the chemical reactions that happen when a sperm meets an egg do not define a human person.\nAm I wrong? I don't believe so. The sperm meeting the egg is a really random point to decide the emergance of a human person. Why pick that point specifically?
Response: Obviously the correct thing to do is kill the zygote. The thing that bothers me about this whole thing is some of the people that said they would refuse to choose. This is characteristic of your typical wimpy religious copout and is nothing but a cheep avoidance tactic. These people are not the kind of people that should be making any important decisions that concern other people so I guess it\xe2\x80\x99s just as well. A zygote is no more viable then a sperm. The attempt to call a zygote a living being is simply more evidence that the religious have no common sense.
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