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Originally posted by sgtclub
I don't get your first point, but it's probably not important.
If I said that I thought science would tell us whether it's human, I misspoke. I've been pitching that at some point science will be able to tell us definitively when life begins, because many pro-choicers do not believe, as you correctly do, that life begins at conception.
All of that said, I still think it is a difficult issue, but it's one that I think should be done honestly in that I think the left should realize that we are balancing the rights of 2 lives, not 1.
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Because the hairs in my head are human, but they clearly are not a human. Though these days, you could even clone them and turn them into a human if you wanted to.
The embryo is clearly human in having human dna, but is the embryo a human? I'm suspicious, but am not ready to buy into any one definition of a human based on what I know.
The embryo and the hair are clearly alive, yet I really don't care whether the hair survives or not (maybe I will some day, but I'm not yet losing enough to care). With respect to embryos, frankly, I will not even know when many of them die, and I think there is great variation among women as to how many embryos may normally come to exist before a viable one implants and matures. Embryos die all the time.
But at some point, the embryo develops to a much more precious point. I don't know when.
