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Quote by: fushigi 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. |
Baby, blastula, zygote, teenager, embryo, man, woman, old geezer...it doesn't matter whether you use scientific jargon or simple nouns, the fact is that these are words used to describe human beings...to be accurate, when you use the scientific jargon you should use the word human before..to separate human embryos from cow embryos...
The fact is that from the moment of conception a unique human being is growing...you have been alive since the moment of your conception...and you have belonged to species homo sapien since that very moment as well...you have undergone many changes since that moment, but you have been part of this species all along...if you are lucky enough to live a long life you will undergo many more changes...you will never become more human or less human due to any of them...you either are human or you are not...
When you use scientific terms in an effort to dehumanize a human, you are no different from the racist who uses words like ni%&er, or coon, or spic, or hebe in an effort to dehumanize someone just enought that it becomes ok to do whatever you wish to them because they aren't as "good" as you..when you identify a blastula as a "human" blastula then your argument loses its punch because you have acknowledged that we are indeed talking about humans..