re: #517 CuriousLurker

I was reading Williamson’s exchange with Charles last night and wondering about the claim that a fertilized egg is no longer an egg. So then it’s what, exactly? A person? If a chicken egg is fertilized does it immediately become a chicken instead of an egg?

Let’s say a farmer has insurance on his hen house and all its contents, and a critter gets in and eats a dozen eggs. Does that mean the farmer can file a claim for the loss of a dozen (viable) chickens?

The “logic” makes my brain hurt…

And if a fertilized egg is a ‘person’, and 75% of ‘em are menstruated out, why— how can anyone go on in such an awful world? How can women just have periods so casually, and not constantly be in mourning and turning themselves in to the police and stuff?