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Originally Posted by chopinisawesome
So... then how do you discern when a zygote or a fetus is a baby?
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Science. It may be a nebulous distinction, but a zygote or early fetus definitely does not count as a baby.
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At the moment of conception, a new, unique human life is formed. There is no other DNA in the world like that cell that was just created. Therefore, it is a new human being, not just a mass of tissue.
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There is human DNA in lots of things: skin cells, sperm cells, egg cells, muscle cells, etc. Are these human life? Are they life at all in any meaningful sense? Should they be protected by law?
Just because the "baby process" has been started does not automatically make a cell/group of cells a baby in the sense of a human being with human consciousness.
And if you consider a zygote or a fetus to be a human life that should be protected by law, should not then a doctor who performs an abortion or a woman who has an abortion be charged with 1st degree murder? What about a father who supports the mother's decision, or the abortion clinic nurses who assist with the procedure? Should they be legally complicit in murder?