| A zygote is an integrated organism, but what makes it so sanct in comparison to a sperm or egg? Are they not just as equally possibilities for "life" as well?
I do not see how one can claim from a purely scientific perspective that a zygote is an entity when it has not yet formed into one. That zygote is no more a human than a sperm or an egg are by themselves - it must first develop and become.
I do not believe in souls, I believe the brain is what makes us who we are, so until the brain is formed I do not believe an embryo to yet be an individual being, but a group of cells striving in the process to become one.
So from this perspective, I have a much different philosophy than your own. You may continue in denial of it all you want, but everyone too has different philosophies as well. If everyone agreed that upon conception the zygote is an entity, then there would be no debate at all or ever - not among you and I, not among scientists and the religiously inclined, not among anyone. We would all agree, but we do not. |