Isn't the issue personhood? A fetus is an actual living human, not a potential human, but when it becomes a person deserving of rights is the issue.
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Embryos can be aborted too.
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This is a category error. There are “potential” children, in the sense of children that *could* exist, and then there are potential children in the sense of potential “children” that have existed in utero, but been killed via abortion.
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The difference is arbitrary, as an embryo or early term foetus, lacking a functional nervous system, is as insensate as a spermatazoa.
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??? Rather different kettles of fish - entirely different phyla or kingdoms, entirely different categories. Gametes aren't zygotes.
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And zygotes are no more people than are gametes.
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'Potential': WHO: 'Most of the 25,000 children under 5 that die per day are concentrated in world's poorest countries in sub-Saharan Africa & S. Asia. Child mortality rate 29 times greater than industrialized countries (IC): 175 deaths/1000 children compared with 6/1000 in IC.'
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What about the king's sperm that wins? Is it guilty of regicide? What Would Jesus' Sperm Do? Important questions.

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Sacrilege! :p
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I was nursing my firstborn and simultaneously held in my hand the dead little fetus that had just slid out of my cramping body. It was 7 cm long, looked sorta like a kitten. Still don't know how to feel about it, but in no way like unmet egg or sperm.
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