The Right to Abortion
Moral Maze
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Is a Fertilized Egg a Human Being?
A fertilized egg is less of the kind of thing that would have rights than a jelly fish, in terms of how we would normally say that some something deserves rights. A set of cells, a fertilize eg, does not have any of those characteristics. In women's rights, we have one category which is precisely the kind of person we allecate rights to, a woman, sentient and capable of emotion. But you would choose the latter over the former. And i think your view is scary. To say that purely because somebody, in this case, am a fetus, or as ievet think it is, is on dey rent, yes.
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