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Quote by: Starboy Rider, all very fine and good but a human being needs a functioning brain to be a living human being. A single human cell does not have any kind of a brain functioning or otherwise.
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You seem to grasp onto small developmental matters and try to build a case from them. An unborn at its earliest stages is a living human being. It will have a functioning brain as it progresses to that point. You may as well argue that a human is not a human until he or she is X feet tall and then children would not be humans because they haven't progressed far enough in their development to have achieved X feet tall.
You seem to be so worried about a brain. Well, at 3 weeks, the unborn's brain has already divided into the 3 major components. By 6 weeks the brain waves are strong enough to be detected by EEG, and by 8 weeks, the unborn's brain accounts for nearly half of its body weight.
Since you place so much stock in brain matter, it would seem that you would figure an 8 week unborn to be more human than any of us since its brain to body ratio makes us seem positively brainless.
So tell me, are you opposed to abortion after a brain is present? Or is that just an argument that you make with no real conviction because it sounds reasonable to you?
And why do you continue on with that silly "single human cell" argument. That period of a human's development only lasts for a few hours. Are you under the impression that we remain one cell and then magically turn into an infant during that magical trip down 7 inches of birth canal?