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'm for making language complex enough to capture the nuances of reality. The embryo is in a process of growing from zygote to child. It's human. The word human being faithfully reflects its nature. If we equate HB with person, we lose our ability to express that prior status.
We can accurately call it a growth of human cells which (at some statistical level depending on its maturation) has the potential to become an independent human being. Calling it that prematurely confuses things, making it sound like it has achieved what is only a possibility.