apple0154
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Apple, if something dies, I agree, it is no longer a living human organism and I don't care what happens to it after it dies. Once the living human organism has died, it is no longer a living human organism, it is dead. How many times are you going to make this ridiculous point? I am not arguing that dead organisms are organisms or living. They are dead tissue at that point, and nothing more. If they do not die, they remain living human organisms, and will always be that until they do die. This happens when the sperm cell enters the egg, and is called conception. A living organism is produced in the process of chemical reactions which begin immediately, when the sperm cell fuses with the egg cell. The life process begins here, nowhere else. If it expires one second later, it doesn't change the fact that it WAS living.
You can make any number of arguments for what condition the living human organism is in, what stage it has reached in development, whether it feels pain, if it has cognition, if it has a functional heart or brain... all sorts of things can be argued for the condition of the living human organism, but it is indeed human life in the state of being. A human being.
Do we know that in the case of self-aborted/absorbed cells the chemical reactions did begin? The fact is we do not know. The sperm may enter the egg and everything stops at that very instant. Or only a portion of the necessary chemical reactions occur.
Again, the point is over 50% of the time nothing happens after the sperm enters the egg and we all know something is supposed to happen.
This is where the discussion jumps the rails. When it comes to discussing human beings some folks discount the most basic logic. If something happened less than 1/2 the time we would not say it always happened.
You are assuming a human being is created every time and we do not know that. Logically, considering over 50% of fertilized cells do not progress, it's reasonable to conclude no conception took place if conception means a human being came into existence.