11-09-2012, 07:52 PM
(11-09-2012, 05:32 PM)Jester Wrote:(11-09-2012, 02:46 PM)kandrathe Wrote: With abortion, the nuance is deciding at what point a fetus is a citizen.
Birth. If not, why don't we arrest expectant mothers for unlawful imprisonment?
-Jester
Is it safe to assume then that human testing could be done if the embryo were to be grown in a test tube? If your definition of "birth" means exposed to the air/world around them, then under your own definition, it would be lawful to keep expermints grown in a testtube indefinitely so long as they remained suspended in an artificial embryonic solution. Fyi, I'm not agreeing nor disagreeing with what you wrote; merely playing devil's advocate with something that struck me as an obvious flaw to your logic. With all the law changes happening in acceptance of stem cell research... it's only a matter of time. I even heard scientists can grow meat right now. I dont imagine human being too terribly far off tbh.
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