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Quote by: Pale RIder Again I ask you..before you were born you were a living growing member of what species? |
Biologically until an animal can reproduce it is technically not part of any species. In order for a species to be a species it must be able to reproduce, until then it could just be a sterile hybrid. The biological classification of species requires that they can persist across generations of that species. So technically until I was able to reproduce I was not fully vested as a member of the human species. And even then my offspring must also be able to reproduce. I have children, are you human yet? We humans however make the rules so I guess we can conflict with our own classifications any way we want. However all that amounts to is a special pleading and is not a very honest thing to do.
At least thirty percent of all pregnancy ends in natural abortion. Nature already practices abortion in far greater numbers than mankind ever has.
I am surprised that a medical doctor knows so little about biology. (Not really, dentistry is basically a trade degree. Just as one should not expect an EE to know all that much about physics.)
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