(November 4, 2016 at 10:15 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: It's not even so much a "faith" thing as it is a science thing. I was NEVER a different species of animal, and there's no such thing as half human, part human, or whole human. Human is human. I was always me and I was always human. Even for the very very brief time that I only consisted of one cell. It isn't the number of cells that makes someone human or not. It's the type of cells. It's the DNA that's in there. There is no arbitrary number we reach in regards to cells in our body where all of the sudden we "become" a "whole human" vs a part human or whatever that is.
So, by that logic, when my wife and I donated the leftover embryos for research after we went through IVF, we were handing over human beings to be experimented on and discarded. Do we deserve to go to jail for that?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
