Oh ffs.
“Slowly but steadily, it seems more and more pro-choicers acknowledge this point.
It is possible to give ‘human being’ a precise meaning. We can use it as equivalent to ‘member of the species Homo sapiens’. Whether a being is a member of a given species is something that can be determined scientifically, by an examination of the nature of the chromosomes in the cells of living organisms. In this sense there is no doubt that from the first moments of its existence an embryo conceived from human sperm and eggs is a human being.”
Peter Singer (pro-choice philosopher), Practical Ethics
Of course we acknowledge it. A human embryo is of the human species. The issue is … Read the rest
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