is a person. If you're not a person, you don't have human life.
Human DNA is not human life. A corpse has human DNA, a corpse does
not have human life. Living human tissue is not a human life. My arm
has living human tissue, my arm does not have human life. Human life
is above all others. Having arms, legs, even opposable thumbs does
not differentiate human life from that of an ape.
You'll have to do better than that.
Human life is defined by sentience at a level higher than any other
species on earth. The ability to grasp concepts like today, and
yesterday, and to form words.
Now stop dancing around the issue and offer some actual proof Thomas.
Show me a zyote can do these things.
--- In [email protected], "Thomas L. Knapp"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Quoth Paul:
>
> > You CLAIM that I'm denying facts. You CLAIM that a fetus has human
> > life (Keep in mind, no sentience = no human life).
>
> Um, no. No sentience MAY equal no personhood, but "human life," by
> definition, is the quality of being a) alive, and b) of species homo
> sapiens sapiens, i.e. "human."
>
> > You claim this to
> > be a FACT.
> >
> > Prove it.
> >
> > Give me some proof, not just baseless assertions.
>
> Do you want me to prove that ALL words correspond to some
> definition/s, or that only these particular ones do? I'll assume the
> latter.
>
> "human, n. 1. A member of the genus _Homo_ and especially of the
> species _H. sapiens_. ... adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic
> of humans: _the course of human events; the human race_."
>
> -- The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
> Edition, Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
>
> "life, n. 1. The property or quality that distinguishes living
> organisms from dead organisms and inanimate matter, manifested in
> functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, and response to
> stimuli or adaptation to the environment originating from within the
> organism."
>
> -- op.cit.
>
> Tom Knapp
>
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