Attack at Planned Parenthood Clinic

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OK, so...

If it's fully explained to everyone as part of a new regime of basic education that "a zygote/fetus is a human", and it's part of medical training to make this fact clear, would you then want to prosecute both parties for murder? It appears your whole case rests on the fact that you consider the thing to be a human.

I think both parties are already quite clear about what exactly they are killing, regardless of what anyone would class it as.

I won't keep argueing about the semantics of "parasites", but I find it interesting it's excluded from the medical definition. It's to be expected, really, but I wonder what the actual distinction is. I class it informally as a parasite, meaning nothing more than it's another life form living inside you, extracting nutrients from you. Interestingly, the only alternative I could see is that it's actually classed as part of the woman until born, or at least until independently viable. I hadn't thought of that before. In some ways, at least informally, that makes sense to me.