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Re: Abortion, consistent with the LP stance? (Re: From Harry Browne
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Mon, 13 Nov 2000 03:11:05 GMT
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Christopher Weeks wrote:
Heck, that's even true for conception.  The sperm finds the egg and tries to
burrow in.  While burrowing, conception hasn't yet happened.  Then it gets in
and the genes are figuring out how to mesh up and form DNA.  That all takes
time.  Once that's all done, it starts replicating.  Certainly by then,
conception has happened, but where in between do you place it?

This little description brings to mind some thoughts:

1. Yes, male humans are aggressive boogers, even all the way down to how
their sperm accomplish their half of the act of conception...

2. the last stanza in a fun little poem (Prehistoric Residue) by Ric
Masten:

   after all
   it takes five million sperm
   to fertilize a single egg
   Mother Nature knows
   the male entity
   never stops to ask for directions

Frank



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  Re: Abortion, consistent with the LP stance? (Re: From Harry Browne
 
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