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>pardon me for not seeing human >life in an embryo/foetus whose >entire mode of being depends on >a symbiotic relationship with the >body of the woman, so intimiate >that it is difficult to tell where the >mothers body ends and the >embryos begins.
A baby is also quite dependent on a mother after being born, does this make it any less of a child? I don't think dependency has any less to do with being human. Does a person hooked up to life support become not human because they are depending on a machine?
>Pardon me for thinking that the >woman must have total control of >that symbiotic relationship and it >has absolutely nothing to do with >society at large what she choses >to nurture inside herself (or not >as the case may be).
A woman must have total control? A woman should be able to choose whether she nurturles a life inside herself or not? Sure - I agree with that. How about being responsible enough in the first place to either not have irresponsible sex or being adult enough to live with the consequences of actions. A symbiotic relationship is simply the process of the baby's development - it really doesn't make a baby any more or less human. And from the start, it's pretty clear that the child is separate from the mother - not sure what you learned in Biology class.