The reason religion is so powerful

[Mister Agenda]

I am not convinced that appealing to a shared humanity works considering that a fair number of AF members do not recognize the humanity of the unborn enough to afford them any rights.

And by that you mean consider the rights of the pregnant woman to decisions about her own body not being superceded by the rights you assign to a fetus. In other words, you value the rights of a blastocyst over a person with a story, hopes, dreams, loved ones, an inner life, and everything else that really makes a human being human. Such a champion of human dignity you are!

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What you are referring to are potential humans.

Time to remove your In-This-House-We-Believe yard sign because you definitely do not believe science. The unborn are human from conception. We can debate the degree to which the lives of the unborn have value and should be protected but there is no debate over them being human. That is just a biological fact.

Your cheek scrapings are 100% human genetically. They are even potential humans, since we can conceivably use them to clone you. I see you reduce humanity to mere biology when it's convenient to your religious beliefs.