An unborn baby is made in the Image of God. An ape or chimpanzee isn't.
You are an ape/primate. If mankind was made in the image of God, then so are our extended primate family.
People are not animals. Even leaving out the Creation argument where the Bible tells us we aren't, there are no animals that are capable of intelligent life and building a society in the same way that humans are.
Even in the Bible it states Mankind are a form of animals. We just happened to evolve into a supremely intelligent species that makes conception many abstract ideas, which is proven by the years of development from the first Homo species being similar to other Great Apes. Previous Homo species did not communicate or have the same conceptions as modern Homo sapiens. Neanderthals started to have their own language through the cravings of rocks, they still had a primitive thinking in areas where we surpass them, evidently with our own languages and the technologies that have been pioneered through the works of scientists and engineers in the last 300 years.
Genesis 1 very clearly states that people are distinct from animals.
Do you have an argument that appeals to universal values, morals, or reason instead of your subjective religious beliefs? If so, it might be more conducive to your case to use that one.
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