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Quote by: dotcoma My point was that we know that the clump of cells is a baby. It is not sperm or a tumor lol. You can understand what it is. You are being way too technical IMO. |
Wrong. We don't know that it "is a baby." That's the whole reason for the debate. We know it has the
potential to become a baby. That potential runs between
1%-70%.
I offer this explanation. From conception, there is life. But here's where it gets tricky. It's not a baby's life, it's the life of a zygote. Then it's the life of a blastula - a clump of cells. Then it's the life of an embryo, and so forth. It's not "a baby" in my estimation. You're ending the life of a zygote, a blastula, an embryo, etc. We should call things by their proper names, not by the name they will one day be.
And yes, these names do matter. If we don't make distinctions between clumps of cells and living people, we get idiotic lawsuits like
this one.