Also known as the glasses that scientists use.
"“The conclusion that human life begins at sperm-egg fusion is uncontested, objective, based on the universally accepted scientific method of distinguishing different cell types from each other and on ample scientific evidence—thousands of independent, peer-reviewed publications.” Dr. Maureen Condic, associate professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Utah Health (2014).
A quote from a pro-life scientist. Great. So a single cell Zygote is a human. Is a sperm half a human?
Anti choice advocates love to argue about human-hood instead of person-hood but those 2 things are greatly differentiated.
For example, a brain dead human in a coma is a very different things than a brain functioning person in a coma. Which is why society is perfectly ok with terminating the "life" of a brain dead human.
Up until a certain point in time - and its past 24 weeks - a fetus has no cognitive capabilities for self-determination and consciousness.
In the first place, that's irrelevant - the value of human lives is not conditional.
See my previous point.
I could just as arbitrarily claim that blacks are only human beings if they live in Harlem. Secondly, if we accept this standard, is that to say you'd oppose abortion past 24 weeks, so far the earliest date that a child has survived outside the womb?
Fetus viability is a moot point. There will be a future where a human can be grown in a lab, not hard to extend what we do today to that outcome.
People die spontaneously all the time.
Incorrect comparison. Miscarriages (horrible term) are not spontaneous and can involve pregnancy termination with expulsion of fetus/zygote.
I'm sure slaveholders thought the same of their slaves.
False equivalence. Those 2 are natural opposites unlike a mother and her unborn child.
He's saying humans have a fundamental right to bodily integrity and self-determination and that the rights of a fetus do not exceed's the mother's rights to those.