[pgyanke]

This is part of the new Anglican approach of adopting and accepting pop culture. The purpose of this pronouncement is shown in the last couple of lines... fertility treatments and stem cell research. According to the Anglicans, go ahead as long as you do it within the first 14 days.

Why are people so dead set on playing God? A cell, freshly fertilized, is no less a potential adult than an embryo. The real question is "at what point have we humans done our part and it's time to let God take it from there?"

The answer is conception.

All we can do after that is choose to allow God's plan to unfold or abort it in process. All of this other parsing and nitpicking is meant to serve a purpose and ideology--it's not a careful and prayerful pursuit of truth.

[D-fendr]

until it was implanted in a womb lining, a fertilised egg was not a human life but rather a genetically novel kind of cell…

which becomes a genetically novel kind of group of cells…

neither of which should be mistaken for being alive.

[beavus]

Why are people so dead set on playing God?

What does it mean to 'play God' exactly? God, presumably, thinks. Does that mean people who think are "playing God"? I need to know when I'm acting God-like.

[Revel]

These are the same establishment that are bringing us Gay Bishops and the sort. The leadership of the Anglican Church is evil and this is more of there evil.

[trad_anglican]

According to the Anglicans, go ahead as long as you do it within the first 14 days.

What, exactly, leads you to believe that he speaks for "the Anglicans?"