ND Measure Says Fertilized Egg Has Human Rights


	ND Measure Says Fertilized Egg Has Human Rights

wiccantexan

2-18-2009 7:48 PM

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abortion, legal, human rights

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2-19-2009 1:13 AM

dmegivern

Don't we have to determine its gender before we can impose the bifurcated *gender* rights system properly? Why not give them full rights before women have equal rights? It will prove very informative.

2-19-2009 10:22 AM

oldbogus

They should also give them the vote; that idea is just as nonsensical. Of course they can't give the proxy to the mother since she is a woman.

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