Quote:
Originally Posted by LikeAWillow
I still can't believe it. I know that I should be more disillusioned by the world than I am, but how could something like that possibly pass???
|
You have to think (or is it not thinking?) like Todd Lamb:
“The goal of this legislation is just to make a statement for the sanctity of human life,” State Senator Todd Lamb, the majority floor leader, said in an interview after the vote. “Maybe someday these babies will grow up to be police officers and arrest bad people, or will find a cure for cancer.”
Or could become bad people, or die of cancer. Arguably, I may have had a sperm that, if combined with the right egg (from the girl I secretly love, of course!
), could've produced a human that may have gone on to solve the Riemann Hypothesis. But that sperm may now be long gone, or will be produced soon and then die. Actually, women are even more to blame, because each egg that's not used each month is truly unique (men could produce two identical sex cells much easier than women, as men produce very many more during their lifetime). So there's a very good sense in which all humans are constantly aborting elements of the set of most admirable humans. I thus fail to see any good justification for why a coupling of the two sex cells (i.e. zygote) should receive any special protection pre-birth.
It may also surprise (well, it did me) that the majority of zygotes actually naturally abort anyway, unawares to the mother (yay, tracked it down!
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7117572).
I also wonder what the likes of Todd Lamb would say if we could "genetically select" police officers or people that probably won't get cancer... actually, it's obvious!
"Stop playing God, evil heathen!"