re: "Oklahoma Lawmakers Approve Near-Total Ban on Abortion" (The New York Times, April 5, 2022)
What is so special about living beings with human DNA that does not apply with equal force to chicken DNA or carrot DNA or cockroach DNA? Surely all DNA is equally sacred and deserving of life by virtue of being actual DNA driving the creation and growth of a living being? Unless there is something magical about human DNA, specifically Homo sapiens DNA, then the care extended to it by Texan and now Oklahoman law must apply to all other forms of the variations of DNA chemistry that build all life on Earth. No?
Chicken DNA, carrot DNA and cockroach DNA deserve the same right to create and grow the living beings they were created to so make by the same mother nature that threw up humans a couple of million years ago, and our species some 200,000 years or more ago. DNA is the foundation of all life on Earth from our near relatives the chimpanzees, whose ancestor six million years ago was also our ancestor, to our relatives the chickens, cockroaches and carrots, our DNA roots with whom go back billions of years, and we continue to share genes with all of those created living beings. Oklahoma must widen the scope of its progressive legislation to protect all DNA in whatever body it is building: at the very least, the genes they share with modern humans of the Oklahoman variety deserve the full protection of that state's law.
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The above comment was submitted by Felix Qui to The New York Times article.
It is published there at https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/us/oklahoma-abortion-ban.html#commentsContainer&permid=117714440:117714440
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