Austria-Bohemia-Hungary wrote:Space Squid wrote:Well no. It's thought that over half of fertilized ovum are ejected from the body either before they can implant, or shortly after implantation due to menstruation. Most women never realize they were pregnant.
But it doesn't really matter. Potentiality is an argument fraught with problems.
Take the potentiality argument to the extreme and we end up arguing whether or not we should abort the next Adolf Hitler. <.>
If arguments based on potentiality had any weight, Earth would have long ago been sucked into a blackhole of its own making.