It's interesting to think of how many potential doctors, scientists, and future global leaders who could have significantly impacted the world had their lives cut short by abortions.
I know, but in America, we always assume that the accused is generally innocent. I'm sure that sometimes they would be evil, but we have ways of dealing with them.
Actually, we assume they'll be standard contributors to society. If they go on ahead and create the next advancements on the human lifestyle, good for them. If they become petty crooks or even murders and terrorists, shame on them, they'll be dealt with. It isn't fair to get robbed of a life, a precious life, a shot to become an influence on people, fall in love, have their own families, and in turn die, looking back at the whole way there. No one has the right to deny anyone at least a chance.
The question then becomes when we count them as a person. For me, that's 26 weeks. For others, it's when they're born. It's 8 weeks for a different set of people and conception for another group.
Life is commonly considered to begin hours after conception, as the cells begin to reproduce. I think that's pretty lively, if the cells are already making cells themselves.
There's nothing anyone can do to protect "rights" of sperm/egg cells, but once they're fertilized (or in the case of sperm, fertilizing), then the growth and life of that cell as a human being is guaranteed, apart from the tragic but natural case of miscarriage.
*Facepalm* I didn't realize plants had the potential to grow into human beings...
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You think plants don’t do much? You mean you missed science in 3rd grade where you learned plants take carbon dioxide and change it to oxygen so we can breathe?
Religion and politics were supposed to be separate entities. The issue over whether stem cell research is morally acceptable stems from religious concerns that we are "playing god" in doing so. The ban on such research indicates that our government is still largely controlled be religion. Despite our best efforts to avert it. Religion is a poison to which science is an antidote.