Comments on: House anti-abortion activists introduce ‘fertilized egg is person’ amendment

By: elmcc

elmcc — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:54:58 +0000

A fertilized egg is a misnomer. There is an egg and there is sperm. Once united, they are a whole new entity with it's own DNA. It is alive; whether it survives is up to nature, and the health of the mother. In either case, this is all of us at that stage of our development. We didn't start out as fully functioning humans, And how or rather how well we function is not what makes us human, Conception is the beginning of life.This “fertilized egg” is as human as a new born baby, The only difference is location and time. the “fertilized egg ” is the embryo, the fetus, the newborn, the child, the adolescent, the adult and the senior citizen, at no point in time is it something or someone different.

By: elmcc

elmcc — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:42:37 +0000

So is the zygote dead? Is it in the same category as a toe nail, a hair folical? Let your toe nails grow and they become a person?

By: elmcc

elmcc — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:54:58 +0000

By: elmcc

elmcc — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:42:37 +0000

So is the zygote dead? Is it in the same category as a toe nail, a hair folical? Let your toe nails grow and they become a person?

By: elmcc

elmcc — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:54:58 +0000

By: elmcc

elmcc — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:42:37 +0000

So is the zygote dead? Is it in the same category as a toe nail, a hair folical? Let your toe nails grow and they become a person?

By: mariezzz

mariezzz — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:14:49 +0000

It's clear the lawmaker is unaware of basic biology. A fertilized egg can eventually lead to one person, or twins, or even triplets (identical twins, for example, result from the complete splitting of a fertilized egg; identical triplet require a second complete splitting). A fertilized egg can eventually lead to no people, when it fails to implant in the uterine wall (within the first 7 days or so after fertilization) or if it successfully implants but miscarriage results at some point after that. Exactly what makes a fertilized egg more special than, for example, an unfertilized egg or sperm alone, or an embryo, for that matter, is unclear. Slezak & Scott are defining a boundary based on political and religious arguments, rather than any scientific or medical arguments.

By: GunTotinLiberal

GunTotinLiberal — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:29:31 +0000

Someone with no heartbeat, no brain wave activity, no respiration and no functioning organs is not alive. A fertilized egg is no different. It is not a living entity.

By: alizen

alizen — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:49:34 +0000

Does this mean that the child tax exemption begins at conception?

By: suzisun1shine

suzisun1shine — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:50:59 +0000

this is the most important issue for MI as it circles the drain. You got a friend in the gop. I hope MI wises up and never votes in another repug ever again.