Pro-life atheists

[Heywood]

Well then Chas, you are not an organism cause you are not independent. You rely on bacteria in your gut.

You can survive quite fine after wiping out your gut bacteria.

That's what many antibiotics do.

Are you just trolling?

A course of antibiotics can wipe some gut bacteria, but some usually remain and repopulate the gut. If the gut were completely sanitized of bacteria you would not survive "quite fine". You might survive long enough to have it re-colonized and thus survive the episode. However if you all your gut bacteria were permanently sanitized, you will live for a little while but eventually you're going to die(without medical attention).

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Anti-Abortion folks like me, use scientific definitions that were created without the abortion debate in mind.

Let's talk about definitions. By definition a gestating potential human is a parasite. The only person that has a right to make the decision as to whether or not the relationship continues is the host. Anyone else's emotional reaction to the decision simply doesn't fucking matter, that includes the father to be. The future father can have a say only to the extent that he provides and cares for the mother and even then can be trumped. If his feelings are ultimately upset; tough shit, he should have done a better job at deciding where to put his cock.

This is a different argument. You are arguing that some humans have the right to choose to kill other humans because of the relationship between the two. I don't accept this argument either, but at least it is not a denial of reality like the argument that a zygote or embryo isn't a human being.