George C. Williams Quotes
The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.
Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.
The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.
Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.
The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence.
