Consider two scenario; A & B
Scenario A:
A husband and wife had "marital
relations". A certain sperm is destined
to meet up with a certain egg.
Both sperm & egg each have unique DNA,
so the resulting union is destined to
create a specific future child.
The hair color, eye color, shape of
features, height, gender, intelligence,
all are contained in the sperm and egg
before they ever meet.
Just as they are about to come together,
the wife sneezes. Just that teeny bit of
jostling causes the sperm to not penetrate
the egg.
That little red haired, freckle faced girl
will never be born.
Scenario B:
Let's try that exact scenario again, this
time with no sneeze, but same exact sperm
and egg. Blue-eye carrying female sperm
fuses with red haired freckle faced egg.
Unfortunately, husband & wife cannot
bring another child into the world for
whatever reason. So right after her
missed period, wife goes to doctor to get
RU486 and terminates her 2 week long
pregnancy.
At this point the zygote is a blastocyst,
not even an embryo. It wasn't yet
attached to the sides of thr uterus/It
never developed any organs, no brain.
Would not feel, was not self aware, etc.,
etc.
That little red haired, freckle faced girl
will never be born.
So what is the difference in the outcomes?
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Jules
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Posted: 10-16-07 12:53pm
One is intentional, the other is not. To
some people that is the moral difference.
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meblonde01
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Posted: 10-16-07 13:07pm
Nothing they are both dead and not able to
have a life.. However, the first scenario
they never met. So a developing human
being was never started. the second
scenario a developing human being is
destroyed preventing it to grow.
Once again. there is a difference in just
cells and when the two meet (if left
alone) would turn into a human being.
One cell can not do it on their own. it
takes the two together..
Big difference.. Live forming or life not
yet forming!
Life not started.. Life destroyed.
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Verizon-y
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Posted: 10-16-07 13:11pm
But there is no difference to the embryo.
Here are other ways to view the same
question:
There is no difference between a couple
having sex and their birth control
working, and the same couple same sexual
act but birth
control fails, but woman has an abortion.
The only "suffering" is borne by the
woman. The child that will not exist will
not exist in either scenario.
The potential child does not know his
parents used birth control, so that is why
he isn't here, and he wouldn't know his
mother had
an abortion, either.
Actually, you can add a third scenario in
which the couple just skips the sex that
night altogether. Same end result, child
that would
have been born had they copulated still
doesn't know he wasn't brought to
fruition.
Tell me the difference as it pertains to
the embryo between a couple having sex and
their birth control working, so a child is
not born
from that union,
and
The same scenario but bc fails, woman gets
pregnant, and aborts embryo at 4 weeks, so
a child is not born from that union.
From the perspective of the child never
born, what is the difference?
