Quote from: CoinCube on December 03, 2019, 11:25:59 PM

Quote from: af_newbie on December 03, 2019, 09:52:54 PM

Oh, so you think a fertilized egg... is a human?
...
Fascinating.

Yes.

It is a human life in its most fragile form and long before the onset of consciousness but a human life nevertheless and deserving of the respect and sanctity that designation entails.

Its not complicated really.

A Scientific View of When Life Begins
https://lozierinstitute.org/a-scientific-view-of-when-life-begins/

Quote from: Maureen Condic, Ph.D.

That human life begins at sperm-egg fusion is uncontested, objective, based on the universally accepted scientific method of distinguishing different cell types from each other and on ample scientific evidence (thousands of independent, peer-reviewed publications). Moreover, it is entirely independent of any specific ethical, moral, political, or religious view of human life or of human embryos. Indeed, this definition does not directly address the central ethical question surrounding the embryo: What value ought society place on human life at the earliest stages of development? A neutral examination of the evidence merely establishes the onset of a new human life at a scientifically well-defined moment of conception, a conclusion that unequivocally indicates that human embryos from the one-cell stage forward are indeed living individuals of the human species; i.e., human beings.

That is not what I asked. Let me try again.

Is a fertilized egg a human, like you and me, or the children that were experimented on by the Nazis?

When do you consider an embryo to be a person?