Stefanie wrote:
In either case, that's a matter of justification of a particular action, not the recognition of human life. If a two-day old infant deserves recognition as a human being, why not a fetus two days prior to birth? What's so different about two weeks, two moths, etc. that a completely different legal status as a human being is required?

I don't want to get into this debate either, mostly because I'm not convicted about it. :) I'll offer for the sake or argument that a zygot doesn't have feelings. I'm not sure whether or not this matters, but I feel like it probably does, particularly when I weigh the value of protecting it against the consequences of forcing people to bring unwanted pregnancies to term. If we afforded other similarly complicated organisms with similar legal protection it would be illegal to use windex. There is a line. I'm not sure where it is.

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