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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
To distinguish it from the cells in the hair I'm pulling out right now.
I still don't understand how it's a "scientific" question as to what a human fetus is. It has the DNA of a human. It will develop into a full-blown human. But it does not have certain characteristics, yet, that we would call human (e.g., sentience). Each of those things can be measured/confirmed by science. But what does that tell us that we don't know?
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I don't get your first point, but it's probably not important.
If I said that I thought science would tell us whether it's human, I misspoke. I've been pitching that at some point science will be able to tell us definitively when life begins, because many pro-choicers do not believe, as you correctly do, that life begins at conception.
All of that said, I still think it is a difficult issue, but it's one that I think should be done honestly in that I think the left should realize that we are balancing the rights of 2 lives, not 1.
