Human Rights for Fertilized Eggs (a.k.a., "Embryos")?

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CAF readers may be interested in the following brief article which indicates that Colorado may put on the ballot a referendum on the possible granting of human rights to fertilized human eggs. It would be a great opportunity to have a debate about first principles: When Does Human Life Begin?

nytimes.com/2007/11/18/us/politics/18ballot.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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Here is something to consider written by Jeremy Bentham when considering the rights for embryos:
What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or a week or even a month old. But suppose they were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being?
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Yes, I do not eat meat (except for salmon occasionally for selfish reasons). I’ll leave it up to you to guess why.
 
I have no problem giving human rights to advanced embryos, but a fertilized egg? thats just extremely naive.
 
Fundamental Human Rights are not something a gvt can give or take away, they are given by God (see declaration of independence). They can be recognized and/or respected by a gvt.

Other rights of less importance can be given by a gvt (right to free speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press) and take away.

So Fundamental Human Rights belong to all humans, from conception to natural death. That is the crux of the pro-life movement. To get gvt to recognize the rights that are given to people because of their intrinsic human dignity.
 
2270 "*Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person - among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.72
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Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you.73

My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth.*74 "
 
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