"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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Except a fetus is not a human being...it's a fetus. A human being is an
autonomous being and a fetus is just the opposite.


In humans, a fetus is the unborn young from the end of the eighth week
after
conception to the moment of birth, as distinguished from the earlier
embryo.

Nice lesson in biology, but totally irrelevant.

A fetus is a human being.

A fetus is a fetus and will remain a fetus until it's an autonomous being.
Prior to that, it's an appendage of the mother.

You can call a leg and arm, but until it has fingers rather than toes, it's
still a leg. The operative word here, in a legal, rather than biological
sense, is AUTOMOMOUS.