(June 20, 2014 at 10:55 am)Heywood Wrote: A zygote is a human being. Like I said earlier...arguing that it isn't is like arguing the world is flat.....I don't take people who put forth such arguments too seriously. Now should human beings which are in their embryonic stage be morally protected? That's a different question entirely.
By definition of law the zygote is not yet a human being. That's all we need to know. Human embryos are protected after a certain stage of development, or, to be more precise, we punish mothers who try to abort after that threshold.
Up to that point, the protection of the zygote is down to the woman who's womb is carrying it. It is HER moral decision.
Why do you think that is insufficient?
Why do you think society should interfere?
It's not immoral to eat meat, abort a fetus or love someone of the same sex...I think that about covers it
