(February 3, 2016 at 12:20 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: At the moment of conception it is, biologically, a human entity. I don't know of any other fair way to define that point other than by what it actually is. It would just be arbitrary otherwise, and when it comes to defining another being's humanity, history has shown us that being arbitrary on this can lead to horrific things. (think holocaust, slavery, the slaughtering of indians in the new world, etc... all in the name that these people weren't actually "human")
It's arbitrary either way, until you actually define what a human being is and why do we care about human life.
Is it fair to say that we care about human life in general because of its ability to suffer, and in particular, we care about it over other animal life because of its ability to think and be self-aware?
