Eeowynn
Cyanna
Eeowynn
Mcphee
I fail to see how the child goes from being non-alive, non-person, and non-deserving of life, into someone who is deserving of their live, and is perfectly human, within the span of nine months.
That child is ALWAYS alive, and is simply growing, through the pregnancy. A fetus fits the definition of a human organism, in spades.
That child is ALWAYS alive, and is simply growing, through the pregnancy. A fetus fits the definition of a human organism, in spades.
As to your first point. The child starts out as a fertilized egg. Then ends up after 9 months of constant growth and development, an infant. Just as you fail to see how this changes. I fail to see how a ball of 8 cells all of which are unspecialised counts as a person.
Simply because cells are alive doesn't make them count as people.
But those eight cells are not generic. They will always result in a baby human specifically. Not a baby...panda (first animal to come to mind). A panda egg and panda sperm joining results in a baby panda every time. A human egg and human sperm joining results in a baby human every time.
This is true, about the Panda (nice choice btw I love pandas)
Aaanywho...whilst it is true that those 8 cells if left in the uterus may become an infant, the first cell devisions of a fertilised egg produce stem cells, which are capable of becoming any type of cell at all. If removed and grown in say...a petri dish...for example, one could make almost any type of tissue one chose, depending on the environment the cells were grown in.
This is why I do not believe them to be "a baby" , merely a group of cells with the potential to become a baby.
