Nye: Can We Stop Telling Women What to Do With Their Bodies? I see the bow tie is still there and noticed
that your human cells, begun at conception, have advanced into old age. Retirement
is not serving you well, however. Rather than bowing out as the energizer bunny
of science-made-easy, you’ve decided to promote abortion.
get fertilized than become humans.”
Heritage Science Dictionary defines conception as “the formation of a
zygote resulting from the union of a sperm and egg cell; fertilization.” A
zygote is the first stage of a human embryo. Thus, fertilized eggs are humans.
to attach to the uterine wall, the inside of a womb, a woman’s womb.” Next, you
said if we are going to hold that as the standard for the beginning of a human,
then, “whom are you going to sue? Whom are you going to imprison? Every woman
who has a fertilized egg pass through her? Every guy whose sperm has fertilized
an egg and then it didn’t become a human?
egg not implanting or being washed away through nature has never been the
issue.
of understanding and you literally or apparently literally don’t know what
you’re talking about.”
backed by real science. A recent study demonstrates that a
fertilized egg—also known as a zygote–is an autonomous living being. This one little cell
begins to divide and to grow totally on its own. Life has begun!
respect to their reproduction, I think you should leave it to women.”
involved.
the first guy to observe this…you have a lot of men of European descent passing
these extraordinary laws based on ignorance.”
also against abortion. Of the 9 most prolife countries in the world, only 1 is
European– Ireland. The rest, Brazil,
Chile, Nigeria, Iran, Saudie Arabia, Indonesia, Philippines, Argentina––not European. African Americans for
Life
would take issue with you acting like being prolife is the exclusive domain of
white males. So would Feminists for Life and Hispanics for Life.
interpretation of a book written 5,000 years ago, 50 centuries ago, makes you
think that when a man and a woman have sexual intercourse they always have a
baby, that’s wrong and so to pass laws based on that belief is inconsistent
with nature,”
the Bible? Moses is estimated to have
been born around 1525 BC—although I’m no expert on that. Regardless, he
received the Ten Commandments that include: “Thou Shalt Not Kill.” If life begins at conception, then abortion is killing a human life. By the way, nowhere in the Bible does it say that men and
women having intercourse always have a baby. Are scientists supposed to make
things up?
belief is inconsistent with nature.”
prolife? Atheists and Agnostics
for Life and Pro-life Humanists are not religious.
everybody. And I know nobody likes abortion, okay. I mean she has rights over
this, especially if she doesn’t like the guy that got her pregnant. She
doesn’t want anything to do with your genes, get over it, especially if she
were raped.”
whether the mom and dad like each other. And speaking of rape, are you aware
that most rape victims choose life and by bringing something good out of the rape they heal quicker
rather than compounding one tragedy upon another?
very frustrating on the outside, on the other side. We have many more important
things to be dealing with.”
you encourage us to look at the facts and “let’s work together.”
scientific nor logical. A good moral argument doesn’t even need to
include religion. The question is, does a human fetus have intrinsic
worth?
someone can be charged with homicide if they kill it. On what moral grounds
does the mother alone determine worth of a baby? We don’t allow mothers to kill newborns.
womb when it is time. It is still just as dependent on others for life after it
is born, but caretakers don’t have the right to kill a baby if it’s
inconvenient. And dependency does not make the baby a part of the women’s body.
They are two separate people with separate beating hearts and separate DNA.
Read your science books!
pro-lifers with shallow, unscientific arguments. Please stop promoting abortion
as if it’s not taking a human life. Human beings have intrinsic value at
every stage. Life, by scientific standards, begins at conception. Regardless
of whether his or her life is convenient to others, a new person has been
created. And remember Bill, you too were once a zygote.
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