Mississippi voting on amendment to declare fertilized egg a person – WTF

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November 4, 2011
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Currently the state of Mississippi is voting on an amendment that would declare a fertilized egg a person. No, I’m not kidding – this amendment would define personhood as “every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the functional equivalent thereof.”

They want to call a fertilized egg a person? WTF? This is a nothing more than a reckless attack on women’s reproductive rights. Full disclosure, I am pro-choice, but come on! A fertilized egg, a person????!!!. OK Mississippians, before you vote on this, ask yourself this question. You walk into a burning building and you see a 6 year old child and a container clearly marked Human Fertilized eggs. You can only save one. Would you hesitate before saving the ACTUAL child? Think on that at the voting booths.

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  • Dnevans1

    I’d save both. Common, why would you only be able to save one? I’d go back and save the canister if I couldn’t fit it in my pocket! 
    On the first day following fertilization, the human embryo is identifiable as a specific human being on a molecular level. On day one, all human chromosomes are present; unique human life begins. By Day 22 the child’s heart begins to beat with it’s own blood. This is scientifically proven. Sounds like a baby human being to me, man. Now, regarding “cloning or the functional equivalent thereof”, I do not understand…probably an addition required by someone sponsoring the bill that is pro-choice and has been lobbied hard by some cloning company. Life, man. Life. Precious, awe inspiring, irreplaceable, bundles of life. 

  • http://www.coreyjf.com Corey Feldman

    Dave, saying you would save both is cheating. They are on different sides of the room but you can only get to one. The thought exercise to simply meant to ask yourself if you truly see them as the same. We are probably not going to agree on the topic of abortion in general. But this law essentially says those undifferentiated eggs are the same as a person. A living, breathing, thinking, feeling human being.  Not the potential of a person, but an actual person  It could even make in vitro fertilization illegal, since the process makes makes lots of extra fertilized eggs that are never implanted. 

  • David

    Corey,

    If your house was burning down and your two sons were on opposite sides of a room and you could only save one, which would you save? Don’t cheat, you gotta choose. Which one? Does that prove that your other son is not/less human?

    I don’t think that it does.

  • http://www.coreyjf.com Corey Feldman

    I would have unbearable anguish leaving either. How many people for this amendment would truly feel anguish over leaving the fertilized, undifferentiated eggs.

  • Dnevans1

    Posted for posterity and continuation of discussion…

  • Dnevans1

    David Evans If
    there were two 6 year olds, it would be the same exercise and
    ultimately more difficult. Based on scientific data, they are both
    human. The difference is that one is purportedly more human because it
    is breathing air or because has a face. I think that’s the difference.
    You’re naturally going to go to the one that shows in her face that she
    needs help. But to say that 1-22 days it is only “the potential” of a
    person? Denial and dehumanizing, unfortunately. I understand making In
    vitro illegal would be tough on the parents that cannot naturally
    conceive. I get that and am not insensitive to that. However, I would
    say that it is just as wrong to kill one 6 year old as it would be to
    kill 100 or 1000. How many children are there in the world that need
    adopting and we’re making more? Not to mention that it is now common
    practice to destroy fertilized eggs if the dna is not just right or
    their genetic alteration did not work. I don’t know, Corey. It’s a
    slippery slope.Friday at 5:06pm · Like
    Corey Feldman Every
    cell in the human body is chemically identifiable as human, has all of
    the chromosomes and could in theory be used to grow a new human being.
    But a hair follicle or skin cell isn’t an actual human. What slippery
    slope goes both directions. Friday at 7:16pm · Unlike · 1
    David Evans Hair follicles and skin cells don’t start pumping their own blood within 3 weeks, though. Friday at 10:10pm · Like

  • http://www.coreyjf.com Corey Feldman

    Dave, Fertilized egg sitting in a test tube won’t start pumping its own blood in a few weeks either. And of course pumping blood doesn’t make something a person either (I’m not a vegan). A fertilized egg, is not capable of thought, emotion or pain. There is no brain to process any information. It is nothing but potentiality.  As with the example from another friend (also a David) below gave – if I had to choice between my two children (or any two children, even strangers), it would be an agonizing and unbearable choice.  But is anyone truly going to agonize over the fertilized eggs they were unable to save? I wouldn’t loose any sleep over it. 

  • Camillerw

    good final point Corey- i agree whole heartedly.

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