Stupid things religious people say

[Sheldon]

It's not rhetoric, you need to look the word up, as I am dubious it means what you think it does.

Now can you put together a coherent argument as to how using the phrase, "microscopic clump of insentient cells" as justification to not consider them human and then stating that their humanity is "empty rhetoric" isn't an act of denying qualities of their humanity?

Yes, it is because the phrase is factually correct, since a blastocyst or zygote, is microscopic, it is a clump of cells, and it is insentient. Ipso facto, it is asinine to assert, as you did, that this factually correct statement was "rhetoric"...

I imagine that it's too much to expect, that you will ever stop your ignorant blathering about your misogynistic racist archaic superstitious ideology, but surely even you can Google a simple word definition.