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Originally Posted by tecoyah
No.....I am sorry, scientifically it is not. It is a group of Human spawned cells, But it is still a Zygote. Just as the Zygote spawned by a mouse.....is not yet a mouse, but it may very well become one in time.
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Scientifically...there isn't an answer to this dispute. There's nothing in science that shows it to be more rational to call a zygote a non-human, outside of the fact that it isn't yet viable or can't yet think. There's nothing in science that shows it to be more rational to call a zygote a human, outside of the fact that it's a biological organism with unique human DNA that continually grows as other life forms do.
"Knowing what we know about that thing inside a pregnant woman's body and how it develops, when do we call it a human being?" is a philosophical question.
That's why it's incorrect to discount option #3.