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  • The problem is that it is very clear that an egg and a spermatazoa are not a human being.

    Matthew Yglesias » Bishops and Abortion 2010

  • There are tiny eukaryotic algae cells with diameters in the 2 micron range, making them similar in size to prokaryotic cells, and there are very large bacteria, but even human spermatazoa are much larger than a typical prokaryotic cell. harold

    No metazoan is an island - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • They suggested that he should've used a theologically correct condom with tiny holes in the reservoir tip so that the spermatazoa would have only a fighting chance to impregnate the mother.

    Paul Krassner: A**holes of the Week #6 2008

  • Perhaps, he could harvest enough horse spermatazoa to equip a spermatozoan-American cavalry.

    Archive 2005-05-01 2005

  • Thus, there is competition among the individual spermatazoa, plus a major set of factors in the vaginal-to-uterine environment: e.g., a lower pH tends to favor X-chromosome bearing sperm, as does a longer delay before the ovum “ripens” X-bearing spermatazoa live longer and swim more slowly than their Y-bearing brothers kin.

    Americans Barely Pass Science Quiz - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • Perhaps, he could harvest enough horse spermatazoa to equip a spermatozoan-American cavalry.

    Is that a bugle in your pants 2005

  • Perhaps, he could harvest enough horse spermatazoa to equip a spermatozoan-American cavalry.

    05/01/2005 - 05/08/2005 2005

  • Fertilisation occurs only when a male-cell (spermatazoon) unites with a female-cell (ovum); in other words, when the spermatazoa in the seminal fluid of a man meet and unite with the germ or ovum in the body of a woman.

    Safe Marriage A Return to Sanity Ettie A. Rout 1899

  • A woman should first push up, as far as possible, a suitable suppository, and then insert the rubber pessary (slightly soaped -- with soap-suds), so as to occlude the whole of the upper part of her genital passage and thus cover the mouth of the womb and effectively prevent entrance of the spermatazoa.

    Safe Marriage A Return to Sanity Ettie A. Rout 1899

  • If the rubber pessary has been properly fitted, and _it is not porous_, the protection should be complete; but if, by any accident, spermatazoa should get beyond the rubber pessary, they will be destroyed and tangled in the melted suppository -- provided, of course, that a suitable suppository has been used.

    Safe Marriage A Return to Sanity Ettie A. Rout 1899

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