In a message dated 5/27/2006 9:41:45 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
Since a fetus is "an unborn or unhatched
> > > vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main
> > > recognizable features of the mature animal," a human fetus that
> > hasn't> died has human life _by definition_.
A fetus may or may not be a human or a person, but a mere zygote or
blastocyst has no "recognizable features of the mature animal" The only way to show
it is "human" (not, for example, some other mammal) is to look at the DNA and
determine if it is human. An embryo with Down's syndrome, for example, has
DNA with less resemblance to the human genome than a chimpanzee has. Are
chimpanzees human, or is the defective embryo not human?
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