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Originally Posted by photon
It's not simplistic, it's taking an issue to a boundary and trying to figure out what the right thing is at the extreme conditions. Just because a fertilized egg has more potential doesn't make one right and the other wrong. Define more. Define potential. Define natural. How much more makes it right or wrong? What if technology was such that you could take a skin cell, buy a $5 kit, swallow it, and 24 hours later you are pregnant? Then each cell has tons of potential.
Potential is the crux of the anti-birth control argument. Would you agree that using birth control is not immoral?
To me edge scenarios can be very useful in illuminating a moral issue.
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Birth control and contraceptives insure that you are protecting and controlling your own genetic material. It is part of your person. A fertilized egg is a combination of material that has the full potential to be a self-determining human being. I think in cases of human life, it is safe to take a precautionary moral position.