I rather did enjoy that, and more than I thought I would. Thank you, whoever you are! (?)
I found it somewhat amusing or gratifying that he brought up a point that I have made in the past but that, obvious though it seems, rarely seems to be brought up in the pro-life debate: That not only does an abortion cut short a potential human life, but so does the loss of every sex cell that does not proceed to grow into a fetus.
By this logic, every sperm cell lost either through masturbation or by abstaining from sex long enough for it to expire in the testes is the loss of a potential human life. (The best figure I can find is that a man produces about 1000 sperm cells per second. Since sperm count must be roughly constant assuming no ejaculations, we must then suppose that a man must have sex a thousand times a second or as often as he can—whichever is greater—or be guilty of wasting sperm cells.) The same goes for egg cells, though the time span is more generous, but every ovum lost to abortion or menstruation is then a sin; only pregnancy or natural, involuntary miscarriage is acceptable. As the YouTube guy says—woman, be pregnant from your first cycle of fertility right up to menopause; anything less is a waste of potential human life.
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Date: 2007-10-25 07:11 am (UTC)I found it somewhat amusing or gratifying that he brought up a point that I have made in the past but that, obvious though it seems, rarely seems to be brought up in the debate: That not only does an abortion cut short a potential human life, but so does the loss of every sex cell that does not proceed to grow into a fetus.
By this logic, every sperm cell lost either through masturbation or by abstaining from sex long enough for it to expire in the testes is the loss of a potential human life. (The best figure I can find is that a man produces about 1000 sperm cells per second. Since sperm count must be roughly constant assuming no ejaculations, we must then suppose that a man must have sex a thousand times a second or as often as he can—whichever is greater—or be guilty of wasting sperm cells.) The same goes for egg cells, though the time span is more generous, but every ovum lost to abortion or menstruation is then a sin; only pregnancy or natural, involuntary miscarriage is acceptable. As the YouTube guy says—woman, be pregnant from your first cycle of fertility right up to menopause; anything less is a waste of potential human life.