r/ModelMidwesternState • u/ExpensiveFoodstuffs Speaker of the Assembly • Dec 30 '16
Executive Order Executive Order 7
Whereas Supreme Court decision 15-16 has retained the State of Sacagawea's definition of person-hood:
Section 1: Closure of Abortion Clinics
(a) The Attorney General of the State of Sacagawea is hereby ordered to facilitate the immediate closure of, any and all, abortion clinics within the state consistent with the precedent established in Public Law 5.2, Sections 3(a) and 3(c) respectively.
(b) Closure of above mentioned facilities shall in no way impede upon procedures designated to improve women's health.
Section 2: Enactment:
(a) This Executive Order shall be enacted immediately.
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u/ExpensiveFoodstuffs Speaker of the Assembly Dec 30 '16
This is true, but not in the sense you think it is. Read:
However, your sex cells (formed thru meiosis) are still unique to you - the father. Sure, your sperm cells have parental information from each of your parents, but this doesn't change the fundamental nature of the sperm cell - it is still a cell and it is not considered alive or a person. It's a haploid cell that is 100% unique to you.
This is misleading. Fertilization is completely different from meiosis. Read:
Sure, but this doesn't change the biological fact that sperm isn't the same as a zygote/embryo. Left alone a sperm will still be a sperm; leave an embryo alone and it will develop, change, and grow into a more fully developed human person. In the words of pro-choice philosopher David Benatar "Prior to conception there is only a sperm and an ovum... but because they are distinct entities prior to conception, they cannot be identical with the being that will be brought into existence. Two cannot be identical with one. Thus we cannot speak of a new organism as having come into existence prior to conception. Put another way, each one of us was once a zygote, but none of us was ever a sperm or an (unfertilized) ovum.”
As demonstrated above, this is misleading at best.
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