(August 13, 2018 at 12:57 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: A human fetus is human. No "potential" necessary.
Human primarily in the sense that it is a multicelled organism with human DNA, to say it's a human being is to make a claim that can't really be supported, even by the most basic definition:
hu·man be·ing
noun
noun: human being; plural noun: human beings; noun: humanbeing; plural noun: humanbeings
a man, woman, or child of the species Homo sapiens, distinguished from other animals by superior mental development, power of articulate speech, and upright stance.
A fetus is no more a child than an acorn is a sapling. It's something that may become a child under the right circumstances. It doesn't have any of the qualities that distinguish us from other animals except its DNA.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.