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Old Feb 20, 2005, 11:20 pm   #93 (permalink) (top)
dotcoma
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Can a baby retain it's viability outside of the womb without a mother? A separate life still needs to be nurtured similarly to the way a mother's body takes care of it internally.
Wait stop, I didn't specify whether it HAD a mother or not, only that it was separate from the mother, as in, outside the womb. Before that crucial point (which keeps getting pushed closer and closer to conception by new discoveries) it is no more a baby than a clump of cells. If it can't survive outside of the mother even given our best medical science, it is then not a separate being. Even if the potential is there, it's only potential.

Hell, even tumors can grow teeth and hair! (See: teratoma)

As soon as abortion is made illegal I'm claiming my sperm as dependants on my w4 form.
My point was that we know that the clump of cells is a baby. It is not sperm or a tumor lol. You can understand what it is. You are being way too technical IMO.

Bishop, why do you think women should not have babies they do not want? What sort of message does that send society? Responsibility is important.
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