| You asserted, "My point was that sperm is living just as the egg is, but they are nothing but cells - no more a human being than a zygote." Rachel, a zygote is an integrated organism ... cells are subunits of organs and organisms.
"... because everyone has different philosophies regarding when life truly begins." Uh, no, 'everyone' doesn't have different philosophies regarding when an individual lifetime begins. Stating that false assertion doesn't give it validity. What you may be trying to express is that people have differing valuations on the life that is there, holding a zygote to be less a person than a toddler, for instance. I'm offering you the facts regarding the continuum that is an individual lifetime. You are correct in assuming that some choose to dehumanize the earliest ages along that continuum, but the 'philosophical dehumanization' in no way cancels the truth that every individual human lifetime begins at that individual's conception. Even identical twins both begin their lifetime continuum at the first diploid mitosis. |