You are very wrong. A zygote isn't a potential human being. It is a stage of human development. A teen isn't a potential adult. A teen is the juvenile stage of development of a mature human being.
Nothing a good course in biology couldn't fix.
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At the stage of human development of a single cell, zygote, or embryo, what is actually there attached to a human being (the woman) isn't a human being/person, but rather a single cell, zygote or embryo, undeveloped fetus..etc. At those early stages of development what exists is something in a state before reaching the condition of a being or person. It's the woman (an actual human being), that allows (or doesn't allow) the zygote, embryo, or fetus to develop within her, at her expense (sacrifice, risk, pain, health, money), to actualize itself into a being/person. Being "human" doesn't equate to personhood. If I extract a living cell from my body with the potential to become a human being or person (provided it's attached to technology and then a woman's uterus), that doesn't by default make that living, human cell a human being or human person.
The zygote or embryo conceived in a woman (actual human being), has the potential to develop into the condition of being a human being like the person who conceived it, but it's up to the woman (the actual human being), to decide whether she will remain pregnant, incurring the cost, risk and hazards, the pain and suffering of pregnancy. It's up to her, not you or me. We shouldn't force women to remain pregnant, especially in the early stages of gestation.
Women should have sovereignty over their bodies and reproductive systems, especially early in the pregnancy, before one can reasonably argue that what is attached to her uterus is a sentient human being. I agree with the conservatives that there is a point in gestation when one can reasonably argue that what is within the womb is a prenatal human being, perhaps even possessing a certain level of consciousness, with the ability to feel pain. So in that case I agree, that society should establish rules to protect human life in the womb that has reached that stage/condition of development. However, a single cell, zygote, or embryo is clearly not a human being or person, but rather a potential, relying on a woman (an actual human being) to actualize itself at her expense and risk. At that stage of pregnancy, a woman should have the right to end it. Her needs, and interests, take precedence over a zygote, embryo, or undeveloped, unviable fetus.
Life outside of the womb, takes precedence over life in the womb, especially when that prenatal life is in its earliest, unviable condition. Her needs:
Are much more important than this:
I take the side of women (actual human beings) and their rights, while you can be the champion of zygotes, embryos, and fetuses in other people's bodies.
It's not "pro-life" to force women to remain pregnant and give birth to unwanted children. Many of these people who are born from mothers that weren't ready to be mothers, end up suffering in poverty, with physical ailments and mental health issues, and more often than other people they fall into violent crime and end up in prison. Our prison inmate population is full of men that were born to women that didn't want them or were raised in horrible conditions because their single mothers couldn't adequately provide for them. So you're not "pro-life", forcing women to remain pregnant and give birth to children, they aren't willing or able to raise. If that wasn't enough, the so-called "pro-life" conservative Republicans, love to defund government social programs that help low-income single mothers raise their children. So you're just making the situation worse, with your artificial concern for zygotes, embryos, and unviable fetuses, in other people's wombs.
So-called "pro-life" politics is motivated mostly by resentment against women who engage in premarital sex. They want to punish women for being "harlots", by forcing them to remain pregnant against their will. That's really their motive for caring so much about fetuses in other people's bodies. It's not a genuine concern for prenatal life in strangers' wombs, but their hatred for sexy "sluts" who are having sex outside of marriage and not having sex with them. When it's a conservative male obsessed with pro-life issues, it's his deep resentment for women, who aren't having sex with him. So he tells women "Aha!!! You got pregnant? Stay pregnant you whore! Yeah suffer!!!". These people aren't really "pro-life", look at how indifferent they are to the suffering of children caused by American economic sanctions and wars. They push for war and more sanctions, drone strikes. These "pro-life" conservatives are for policies that cause an immense amount of suffering around the world, do you actually think they care about fetuses in other people's wombs? No.
