Ask a Bible college Student

[Mister Agenda]

Then you're not talking about genetic uniqueness at all, you're referring to the potential to develop into a human being. You should go with that, you'll be on much firmer footing and it serves your purpose just as well. That still leaves the clone issue open though, since a shed human cell CAN develop into a human being, with some help.

Again, I'm talking about the genetic uniqueness between a mom and her unborn baby and showing that it's a separate set of DNA from her and is therefore not part of her body or part of anyone else's body, and is different from our own cells that naturally shed off. When we shed cells, that's part of our cells coming off... that's not the entirety of them being destroyed like what happens in abortion.   

And I'm definitely not talking about the "potential to develop into a human being". It makes no sense for there to ever be a point in time where we were anything other than human and then magically became human at some arbitrary point. My existence began at conception, and I have been a human since that time.   

So if a woman, for some reason (like it turns out natural parthenogenic birth is possible in humans after all), had a fetus with DNA identical to hers, you would consider it part of her body and be okay with her deciding to terminate her pregnancy?

As for cloning a cell that sheds off our body, I don't know what needs to be done to it in a lab to make it "come alive" if you will, and start growing and multiplying. But I'd say at the exact point that it starts to do that is the point that you have another live human being right there. At that point it ceases from being a dead skin cell and has a life of its own.

So what does genetic uniqueness have to do with the issue? In every instance where genetic uniqueness is eliminated as a factor, you just move on as though you never said it was important.