Ben Carson: It was OK for me to do research on aborted fetuses

[Benton]

This is depressing. This could have been a dozen or so pages about masturbation jokes. Instead, we get skin cells vs sperm cells.

In the end, it's semantics. The definition of life is where you place it. Will a skin cell grow into a person if left unattended? No. Will an egg? No. Both require some form of outside factor to support it. You can take — and they have taken — skin cells and fertilized eggs. And they were just as alive as bacteria which we have no problem eradicating, species of animals we are harvesting to extinction or people, who we have no problem treating horribly.

BTW, if left unmolested, a fertilized egg will perish. It requires intervention, albeit of an organic nature. Skin cells and brain cells likewise perish without intervention. Take any from their host and they will break down.