Nod4Eight
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A heartbeat starts around 5 weeks, well within the first trimester. Unique DNA - what makes you different than I - starts well before that.It's not, because we are debating morals here in the end when it comes to abortion. We are not when it comes to out of the womb, physical human life.
The 1st trimester only debate comes in primarily under the guise of souls which is religious. Ignoring that marker itself makes it bad faith. It's not akin to the enslavement of human life or the genocide of a specific race.
What the real debate is with this is, human life and human soul being tied together with one part being said out loud and the other not at all.
Does a clumped mass inside a stomach, devoid of human shape still with the sperm completely intact outside the egg, does it have life, does it have a soul? Life, yes, soul, well, that's the religious debate.
At the end of the day, we are both "clumps of cells". We have just been granted the ability to move beyond the stage of humanness that some feel is ok to kill.
Just because it doesn't look like you or I doesn't make it less human. A caterpillar is the same organism as the butterfly it becomes. These arguments of "its not fully human" are just a distraction. It is what it is, and what it will become.