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To: MizSterious
If the egg is fertilized, it IS an abortion.

I don't think that is technically accurate. I've read that many times an egg is fertilized and it doesn't implant or they implant in a fallopian tube. Neither of those is considered an abortion.

We're probably just talking technicalities.

78 posted on 08/24/2006 10:11:52 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it! Supporting our troops means praying for them to WIN!)
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To: xzins; MizSterious

If the egg is fertilized, it IS an abortion.

I don't think that is technically accurate. I've read that many times an egg is fertilized and it doesn't implant or they implant in a fallopian tube. Neither of those is considered an abortion.

We're probably just talking technicalities.


Parallel logic: Many times a person will be involved in a car wreck, and as a result of injuries sustained, die. Many times a person will contract a deadly disease, and as a result, die. Many times a person, while hiking through the woods, will be bitten by a venomous snake, and as a result, die.

Therefore, it is not "murder" when someone plants the blade of a pick-axe in another person's skull.

Hint: The outcome -- or even the cause -- are not the determining factors.

It's the intent that matters.

Did "Person A" intend to "terminate" the life of "Person B"?

That's all that matters.

If you want to go "talking technicalities", then it comes down to things like "murder" versus "manslaughter" and such like. But so far as I am aware, the fact that people die in car wrecks has never been used successfully as an affirmative defense to a charge of murder (i.e., "Yes, Your Honor, my client certainly did shoot the victim -- however, in light of the staggering number of automobile fatalities, it's a tragic waste of the court's time to go hounding my client over these 'technicalities.'")

130 posted on 08/25/2006 2:15:24 AM PDT by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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