This is how I try to talk to people who present these types of things :
Have you known many turnips that have gone through their early development and ended up as a human child? Probably not, I assume.
However, in 100 percent of cases, the "entity" that begins its life cycle at conception following the insemination of a human female's egg, will turn out to be a human being. No woman has ever given birth to a turnip, or an otter or a birch tree.
We place (rightly so) a vastly higher value on the life of one unique human being OVER that of one individual turnip.
So saying that a turnip has DNA, ergo you must be arguing that anything with DNA must be protected is intellectually dishonest.
The tiny little two celled "entity" that is only seconds old inside a woman's womb IS human, and it will continue to be human. Whether it lives to be 100, or if it dies before it is able to divide its two cells into four cells. It was and is human.
We've established that humans (SHOULD be) valued an order of magnitude more important and worthy of life than a turnip, yes?
So that holds true whether the human is in the first moment of existence or the final minutes of it.
This is how I try to talk to people who present these types of things :
Have you known many turnips that have gone through their early development and ended up as a human child? Probably not, I assume.
However, in 100 percent of cases, the "entity" that begins its life cycle at conception following the insemination of a human female's egg, will turn out to be a human being. No woman has ever given birth to a turnip, or an otter or a birch tree.
We place (rightly so) a vastly higher value on the life of one unique human being OVER that of one individual turnip.
So saying that a turnip has DNA, ergo you must be arguing that anything with DNA must be protected is intellectually dishonest.
The tiny little two celled "entity" that is only seconds old inside a woman's womb IS human, and it will continue to be human. Whether it lives to be 100, or if it dies before it is able to divide its two cells into four cells. It was and is human.
We've established that humans (SHOULD be) valued an order of magnitude more important and worthy of life than a turnip, yes?
So that holds true whether the human is in the first moment of existence or the final minutes of it.