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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Re: If life begins at conception, th
Message-ID: <162@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 12:59:53 EST
Article-I.D.: psivax.162
Posted: Wed Nov 28 12:59:53 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 19:16:41 EST
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Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley friesen)
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Summary: 

In article <4182@cbscc.UUCP> pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul Dubuc) writes:
>From a biological standpoint, it seems to me that sex cells only become
>an individual, a human being, when a certain specific event takes place:
>conception.  After that it grows on its own.  If a human life begins at
>conception it is not because of its potential to be human life, that potential
>has been fulfilled.
>

    This is incorrect, from a biological standpoint the moment of
fertilization(conception) is not particularly special.
To summarize:
	1) The ovum is freed from the mother when it is ejected
	from the ovary, in a sudden manner.

	2) The only *immediate* effect of fertilization is to stimulate
	undifferentiated cell division.

	3) The genetic impact of fertilization is delayed until
	cell differentiation begins, some time later.

Therefor -- Biologically there are *no* clear, sharp dividing lines,
	and *any* demarcation point is of necessity arbitrary.
	The issue must therefore be decided on different grounds.