It is a cell!!!! omg what is so confusing about a cell? it is not even a complex enough cell to be considered a human being. It cant breath. do you know the requirement for all living things to be considered living?
As stated earlier we are all just collections of cells. By your logic none of us are entitled to individual rights. The level of simplicity you're talking about is never true of a fertilized embryo, and it could only be described as "simple" in the absolute earliest stages of pregnancy, when most often women don't even realize they are pregnant.
Plenty of living things don't have organs in the sense that fully developed human beings do. From the time fertilization occurs the embryo is in fact a "developing" human being. The fact that it is not yet fully functioning does not diminish its status as a human.
But why? It is an undeveloped human being, I don't understand how that is debatable. I almost have a modicum of respect for those who acknowledge that it's a human being but would ask the question "Why is it wrong to kill a human being and when should we kill a human being?" rather than saying because it doesn't have all the qualities of a fully functioning post-partum human it isn't a human in any respect, because at least they call a spade a spade...
Humanity carries with it certain emotional connotations, so abortion rights advocates fear it being used as a wedge for appeal to emotion. I, however, recognize a fetus as human & simultaneously reject the idea that it has a right to be free from aggression.
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