(June 30, 2022 at 2:21 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(June 28, 2022 at 9:00 pm)Jehanne Wrote: An acorn is not an oak tree.
Same organism—at different stages of it's development.
Pro-life arguments have a definite advantage on this front. And I would be surprised if you've ever convinced someone that a fetus isn't a developing human by saying acorns aren't oak trees.
That's why it's necessary to understand that pro-choice positions aren't dependent on such facts. The famous example is that of someone being connected to a sick person as a kind of living dialysis machine. There's no doubt here that the sick person is a fully grown human being. The question is whether it's right to keep the healthy person tied up to the sick person if they ever wanted to leave.
Sorry, I don't believe a zygote to be a human being just because it is composed of human DNA. It's like saying that my sperm are little human beings.
