You can create a new strand of DNA in a lab. Is a petri dish full of cells a person with full legal rights? This is one of the most interesting and most bizarre contradictions among those who claim to be “pro-life” for religious reasons. Religion is based on the presumption that the essence of our existence is non-physical; and yet religious anti-abortionists are perfectly willing to define personhood in terms of a cluster of biological elements. Go figure !
A fertilised egg is no more a baby than a grain of wheat is a loaf of bread. Your appeal to terminology is simply ludicrous.
A baby is a living human being capable of sustaining itself, breathing, feeling and having a brain.
Let's cut this utter nonsense.
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I see this silly sleight of hand played time and time again by rabid anti-abortionists. It is utterly farcical.
We can further expose how ridiculous it is to appeal to terminology by considering what parts of a human being are required in ordr for us to honestly call it a human being.
So let's take an adult human being.
It is a human being
Now we cut off an arm - is it still a human being?
Now we cut off a leg - is it still a human being?
Now we surgically remove the brain or even chop off the entire head - is it still a human being?
Let's say we remove absolutely everything except the big toe - is that still a human being?
The anti-abortionists sadly have to tow the party line that yes, a big toe IS a human being because to state that it is not a human being (which is the truth) is to then concede that calling a fertilised egg a human being is equally stupid and false.
We might also consider the difference between a 30 day old corpse vs a living adult. Are they both human beings?
They certainly both are the same species, they both have human DNA but with the best will in the world a corpse is not a human being. It is just a collection of human cells, without a functioning brain.
And really it is the brain that gets us to the truth of all this, because without the brain the rest of the body does not function, there is no breath, no heart beat and so on.
An egg has no brain. It is not therefore a human being at this point by any reasonable usage of that term.