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Old 05-26-2011, 01:20 PM   #179
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I really think most Canadians would get behind some protection for the child after 5 or 6 months.
Maybe, but polls seem to indicate that unrestricted is the desire of the majority.

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Yes, but they don't have the potential to grow into a human so I don't think that matters.
Human skin cells do.

I don't see the practical difference between the body naturally aborting a pregnancy which happens a lot without anyone even noticing, taking a pill that restricts implanting, removing a cluster of cells that hasn't differentiated into anything other than non-sentient cells, and using a condom to stop the meeting of egg/sperm in the first place.

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But without any doubt fertilization is the beginning of human life.
That's where Catholics and the like get their prohibition on contraception; something is interfering with the natural process of fertilization.

It's the beginning of human life, but it's still just a single cell at that point. Is removing one cell immoral?

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how can you guys be so sure of your pro-choice stance given how good the arguments are on the pro-life side?
For me because most of the pro-life arguments I've encountered aren't good arguments at all, just good sounding ones. And the ones that are good arguments are worth considering, but haven't been enough to change my mind.
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