Re: Chip
My position is that an unborn at any stage of development is a human being. I hold an advanced degree in a biological science but even so, would never expect for anyone to accept my statement without corroborating evidence so here is just a small sample of the corroborating evidence that I have to offer:
"an unborn child is a human being from conception is “supported by standard textbooks on embryology or human biology” T.W. SADLER, LANGMAN’S MEDICAL EMBRYOLOGY (John N. Gardner ed., 6th ed.
"The exact moment of the beginning of personhood and of the human body is at the moment of conception."
M. Allen et. al., "The Limits of Viability." New England Journal of Medicine. 11/25/93: Vol. 329, No. 22, p. 1597.
"Physicians, biologists, and other scientists agree that conception marks the beginning of the life of a human being—a being that is alive and is a member of the human species. There is overwhelming agreement on this point in countless medical, biological, and scientific writings." John C. Fletcher, Mark I. Evans, "Maternal Bonding in Early Fetal Ultrasound Examinations," New England Journal of Medicine, February 17, 1983.
" A zygote is the beginning of a new human being. Human development begins at fertilization, the process during which a male gamete or sperm ... unites with a female gamete or oocyte ... to form a single cell called a zygote. This highly specialized, totipotent cell marks the beginning of each of us as a unique individual." Keith L. Moore, Ph.D. & T.V.N. Persaud, Md., The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 6th ed.(Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company), 2-18.
"Fertilization is an important landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human being is thereby formed... The zygote is a unicellular human being... Ronan R. O'Rahilly, Fabiola Muller, (New York: Wiley-Liss), 5, 55. EMBRYOLOGY & TERATOLOGY
So there is some of my evidence. Medical shool textbooks used to teach the subjects of embryology, fetology, developmental biology, and OB/Gyn and highly respected, peer reviewed medical journals.
Now I will congratulate you on completing a course in biology, but if I as one who holds an advanced degree in a biological science don't expect that my claims be taken at face value, surely you as one who completed a course in biology don't expect that your claims will be taken at face value do you?
Lets see some credible material stating explicitly that the offspring of two human beings is at some point, something other than a human being. Either provide the evidence or admit that you were mistaken when you said that early unborns are not human beings. Are you grown up and intelligent enough to admit when you are wrong?
