> You failed to address the fact that a fetus has no human life.
Perhaps he failed to address that "fact" because it's not a "fact" or
even an informed opinion. A fetus is a specific, individual, whole
iteration of species homo sapiens sapiens, i.e. a "human being." It
may or may not possess some specified criterion or criteria of
"personhood" (and whether it does or not is the determining factor in
whether or not there are further questions as to how it should
ethically be addressed), but there is no doubt whatsoever that it has
-- in fact is -- "human life."
Of course, "because I say so" would be no more an argument from me
than it is from you. The fact that a fetus -- or for that matter an
embryo -- is a human being may be found referenced in any reputable
textbook on human embryology*, and which may be empirically proven to
one's self by simply observing an in vitro fertilization and
subsequent events.
The only alternative explanation to the notion that an embryo or fetus
is a "human being" is a superstitious or religious explanation under
which some invisible imaginary entity -- the Fetus Fairy -- swoops in
at the moment the fetus is traveling down the birth canal, steals it
and replaces it with a "human being" which in turn came from the same
unknown and unknowable dimension as said Fetus Fairy.
Tom Knapp
* For example:
"Fertilization is an important landmark because, under ordinary
circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby
formed ..." --
_Embryology & Teratology_ by Ronan R. O'Rahilly, Fabiola Muller, (New
York: Wiley-Liss, 1996
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