[extropy-chat] Famous author self destructs in public! Film at eleven.

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:

> A fetus is not a child until it is granted that status by the woman  
> carrying it. 

Wow, women have the power of life and death over the most helpless in
their care. I realized that some women see themselves as God, or gods
gift to men, while others thing that god is a woman, but I had no idea
that all women were so empowered... there is thus obviously no legal
basis to prosecute women who kill their babies in post-partum
depression...

> Otherwise women are subject to unbidden duties by any  
> failure in contraceptive viability (if available) or any lapse in  
> attentiveness to such protections.    Where do you get the jump that 
> it is a duty to have children?

What about that social contract you ladies are always yakking about?

> 
> The entire notion of when a set of cells becomes a human child with  
> all the rights and duties attending thereto is hotly debated.  Is a  
> blastocyst a "child"?   Are the sperm and egg before union somehow a 
> "child"?  Does it take a sperm and an egg?  If we take an unfertilzed
> egg and replace its nucleus with the nucleus from an adult cell from 
> say the adult's finger is the result also a "child"?

Is a seven month old fetus a blastocyst? Is a nine month fetus a 'clump
of cells'? Stop yammering hyperbole and stick to the topic.



Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com

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