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Originally Posted by KnightOfSappho  Your own phrasing is the key here. It has the POTENTIAL to become a human being; the cells are NOT a person yet.
Recognizing this, shouldn't the woman that IS a person have say over what goes on inside of her own body? | Yes the phrasing is key. It has the POTENTIAL to become a human being because, if allowed to develop, it's more than likely that it WILL. "An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt." ~ Antonio Tabucchi
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