Obamanation
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Who cares??? You have said a number of times that the reason a fetus/embryo isn't a human is because they can't exist on their own. Same is true of ANYONE on life support...
Except for one big difference. EVERYONE on life support BREATHES AIR. They may require a MACHINE to do it, or pure OXYGEN or other special gas mixture - but they all share that same characteristic with every other non-fetal human being in the world - we all BREATHE GASEOUS MIXTURE INTO OUR LUNGS TO CONSUME O2 AND RELEASE CO2. FETUSES DO NOT DO THAT.
Also - another key difference - the fetus shares an organ with the mother - and dervies all of its nutrients and oxygen and releases all of its wastes from and though said mother. The only other human example of this would be the extremely rare case of the parasitic conjoined twin.
https://www.google.com/search?q=par...Mn22AXf3YDwAg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=960&bih=458
BTW - under the absurd anti-abortion viewpoint, the host twin wouldn't be legally allowed to have his parasitic twin surgically removed. Its human life. You can't kill it, right?
...and just because a fetus is attached to another human being, doesn't make them any less human.
My hand is human. Its not a human being though.
Not true. Successful separations of both twins occur all the time. At any rate - in all but the parasitic case each twin contributes something to body function - breathing air, for instance - the hallmark of being a non fetal human.I guess siamese twins who share organs aren't human either? if not connected, at least one of them would die...
So it's the undeveloped lung thing that makes then not human beings... I see --- just keep on twisting until you find something that works. I get it!!!!
and what about those siamese twins again??