Sentience

[theapportioner]

Regardless of your inability to articulate, your points are trivial ones.

A quick aside on my opinion on abortion and stem cell research: Functioning members of human societies are orders of magnitude more important morally, ethically, legally, than a barely organized bundle of cells, to the point where the latter's importance is negligible. Hello? Forget about the blastulas and let's get to work on the people living NOW.

Another problem with defining 'humanness' based on cellular DNA and extrapolating that to abortion etc.: Every cell in the human body has the same copy of DNA. In a decade or so, it will be entirely possible to reset some if not all of these cells to an embryonic stem cell state. Therefore, with the appropriate technology, any cell in your body is a potential human being.

Oh, but that's "technological interference", and "nature" doesn't work that way. But we never complain about that when it comes to very prematurely born infants.

Step back a moment. Don't you see what is happening? You are creating all these arbitrary, convoluted, ridiculously subtle, contradictory rules to define what is human because you have made the error in contexts. And those who are pro-choice do this too.