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Originally Posted by dc_dux
From the online medical dictionary: fetus -->
foetus
<biology, embryology, obstetrics> A developing unborn offspring of an animal that gives birth to its young (as opposed to laying eggs).
From approximately three months after conception the offspring take on a recognisable form (all parts in place, etc.). In human development, the period after the seventh or eighth week of pregnancy is the foetal period.
or:
Fetus
The unborn offspring of any viviparous mammals, in the postembryonic period, after the major structures have been outlined.
http://www.online-medical-dictionary...md.asp?q=fetus
or:
fe·tus (fts)
n. pl. fe·tus·es
1. The unborn young of a viviparous vertebrate having a basic structural resemblance to the adult animal.
2. In humans, the unborn young from the end of the eighth week after conception to the moment of birth.
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/fetus
will...if you believe a living organism is a fetus at conceptionfertilization, the medical consensus does not agree with you.
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I used the term "incubation".
It's only a moral case after you've established a consensus about when life is life. It's not fallacious in the least either way. I'd say the only real fallacies in this thread are the various appeals to emotion and false choices made by both sides.