[TigerMandingo]

(07-30-2015 06:48 PM)joseywales Wrote:  

The biological fact is what counts here, which is when the ovum and the sperm unite, a single-celled human organism is formed. This organism is a human being, a person at the single-cell stage. A single-celled human organism has 1. organic matter, 2. the capacity for growth, 3. reproduction, 4. functional activity, and 5. continual change preceeding death.

We don't have birth certificates, btw. My daughter, now 11 weeks old, was issued a Certificate of Live Birth i.e. she was alive at the time of birth and not stillborn.

I don't care about the science, man. Sorry. That fetus could be reading Dostoyevsky and I still wouldn't call it human. I am, however, extremely thankful that we live in an age where an unwanted pregnancy can be easily averted.

Congratulations on the baby, though! I mean it