RE: Ask a Bible college Student
November 4, 2016 at 10:25 am
(This post was last modified: November 4, 2016 at 10:26 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(November 4, 2016 at 2:03 am)Irrational Wrote:(November 3, 2016 at 6:54 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Heh, yeah I know I answered for him. Sowwy!
And well, he/she may die before getting the chance to mature enough to take the form of a person (either by miscarriage or failure to stick to the uterous), but that's still a human entity.
Again, being human does not make one a whole human being (person). I get that, by your faith, you must believe that a one cell (in this case, a fertilized egg) can be a human being, but this is not supported by good reason.
Semantics. I'd say they were a human being but not a person yet (member of society) (I don't differentiate between "a human" and "a human being", as far as I am concerned the former is shorthand for the latter).
I don't care if they're human or not, that's why I care about the suffering of animals too. What I care about is whether fetuses can suffer as much as the mother: and they can't.