I Want to Move to North Dakota

The North Dakota House has approved a measure today, giving human rights to fertilized human eggs. Doesn't that seem like a no-brainer? read the full article here

To quote Gary Graham in the afore-mentioned article:

I’ve heard it argued that a fetus is not a baby because it could not survive outside the womb on its own. But what about three-day old baby? Or even a two week old baby? If you set it down on the floor and leave it alone…will it survive on its own? Or will it die? So what’s the cut-off for determining whether it’s a baby or not?

It really comes down to this: when does life begin? When is it a baby? At the point of conception? First trimester? Third? At the point of actual delivery? When the umbilical cord is cut? Two weeks afterward? When?

I’m telling you, once you draw that line and say this is the moment it’s a human being…you’ve lost the argument. Because it’s arbitrary. On this date it’s a baby, but yesterday it was just a bunch of cells…this blob of a nothing and you can do anything you want with it, it’s okay. Babies have been born premature in the second trimester and lived. Happens all the time.

And I heard Governor Mike Huckabee (who I voted for in the primaries) recently say in an interview that the abortion issue really comes down to whether or not a person can legally OWN another person. And that's why the comparison to slavery is so poignant; assuming either that a fetus' (fetus- latin for'offspring') life would be a waste, or that the 'mother' (impregnated woman) has the 'right to choose' to murder because the fetus is in her body, is literally claiming ownership of another person, with a whole different set of DNA.

Technological/scientific advancements have not always turned out to be good for humankind; they have led to atrocities like in-vitro fertilization which many times fertilizes many eggs, and selects the strongest and either kills/freezes the rest for unnecessary and fruitless experiments like embryonic stem cell research (which still happens, although supposedly not with federal funding). And even if embryonic stem cell research proved to help with symptoms of such diseases as diabetes and parkinson's, how backward is it, to use and destroy life, for the mere possibility of slightly improving anothers? doesn't that seem counterproductive?

So, good job North Dakota. I am sure many people will think giving human rights to fertilized human eggs is ridiculous--like respected 'ethicist' Peter Singer does...who would rather grant human rights to monkeys. Seriously.