Comments on: Bush and Human Life http://www.thoughtbubbles.org/politics/bush_human_life/ A grad student blog Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:28:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Yvonne http://www.thoughtbubbles.org/politics/bush_human_life/#comment-44 Yvonne Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:24:53 +0000 http://www.thoughtbubbles.org/politics/bush_human_life/#comment-44 Point taken. You are, of course, correct. Point taken. You are, of course, correct.

]]> By: dlw32 http://www.thoughtbubbles.org/politics/bush_human_life/#comment-43 dlw32 Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:29:16 +0000 http://www.thoughtbubbles.org/politics/bush_human_life/#comment-43 I just want to correct one statement. A blastocyst "left to its own devices" won't become a human or a dog or anything other than a dead clump of cells. It has to be implanted in a woman to become anything else. And even then a healthy percentage of the time it won't take or the pregnancy will abort naturally (miscarrage). It may seem like a small point, but the fact is that there isn't surplus of women lining up to being impregnated with these blastocysts. So, unless W wants to force pregnancy on women to save the "potential human life" or end the whole system of fertility clinics, these cells aren't going to ever become anything. I just want to correct one statement. A blastocyst “left to its own devices” won’t become a human or a dog or anything other than a dead clump of cells. It has to be implanted in a woman to become anything else. And even then a healthy percentage of the time it won’t take or the pregnancy will abort naturally (miscarrage).

It may seem like a small point, but the fact is that there isn’t surplus of women lining up to being impregnated with these blastocysts. So, unless W wants to force pregnancy on women to save the “potential human life” or end the whole system of fertility clinics, these cells aren’t going to ever become anything.

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