Pregnancy is one human being growing inside another. It's tempting to pretend that one of those two human beings isn't there. But they're both there.https://twitter.com/NappNazworth/status/1073316270072827904 …
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I just wondered if you bought into a frame w/o fully examining it. “Being” is not a well-defined word in English. Granting human origin to cells with human dna is trivial, but saying ‘human being” has emotionally resonance. It’s equivalent to person in common usage.
To say a X is a person or X is a human will sound equivalent to most speakers. If the reasoning behind why a fetus is a human being hinges on it being human (for what other animal could it be?) the work the word being is doing is left unexamined.
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Since person and human being will seem equivalent to most English speakers, this suggests that being carries with it a suggestion of sentience, thought, independent life. None of which exists in an early stage embryo. It may have human dna but it is not yet an independent being.
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