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lol, so I should assume instead that it MIGHT become a sheep or a horse or a dog?....
The operative word there is "MIGHT". It might become a human being. Then, again, it might not.
let's try it just one more time from a different angle....you mentioned stem cell research.....now, once a woman's egg has been fertilized and conception has occurred, there is something which exists which is different from the egg and different from the sperm.....a scientist can examine the DNA....what that scientist will tell you is this different thing is alive, it is human, it is something completely distinguishable from both the mother and the father.....if this were not true, there would BE no stem cell research, because they could simply use the sperm cell.....that thing is a living human individual.....granted, it is not a fully grown living human individual, thus it is not an "oak tree"....but "oak tree" does not equal "human being"...."oak tree" equals "human adult"....."oak" equals "human"....so when you kill that thing, you are killing a living human individual.....why are you killing living human individuals?......
Again, it is human material. It is not a human being.
BTW, I mentioned previously about a person having two sets of DNA. In one notable legal case science "proved" a woman's biological children were not her own. Obviously, science made a error.
DNA and the corresponding science is relatively new. Science does not know if the individual thing that is alive will become a human being. That is why over 50% of those living things spontaneously abort.
We have no way of knowing, at this time, which of those living things will develop into a human being. Science can't even tell if one of those living things is one living thing or if it will become two living things (twins). Or three living things (triplets). All science can tell us is it's human material and it's living. That's all. Unless you have info to the contrary?
On that note I have to leave the discussion there.. Back in a week or so.