Are you the same organism?
No. A zygote is not an embryo. An embryo is not a baby. A baby is not an adolescent. An adolescent is not an adult.
You contend these are all separate organisms and not stages of the same organisms’ life cycle. That’s flat earth level stuff.
If we had a law against killing butterflies, should a person get in trouble for killing a caterpillar?
I didn’t say that at all. I’m saying that zygote in my mommy’s womb was not the person who is typing this post. It had no fingers.
Then are you the same organism?
Of course not. I’m a person, not a zygote.
The question is if you’re the same organism in the same life cycle.
Let me get this right. You are saying a zygote is not a person and a person is not a zygote…but they are the same organism at different stages?
It’s a simple question. I even shared references.
That you didn’t answer.
Zecarlo. You previously rejected the switcheroo theory. Are you now reverting to it? Are you the same organism in its own lifecycle or not?
Is a zygote a person?
You can’t even answer a bio 101 question?
Sloth, I accept that the zygote will in many (most maybe?) cases become a person.
That does not mean zygote = person.
I don’t believe in souls, but when would you say that the embryo gets a soul? Given it could split or merge, it would surely have to be after that point. Unless souls can split too? Maybe it is one soul, then another soul is spawned at the split?
Pot, meet kettle.
Siamese souls.
I will repeat this yet again. That is not my argument.
Then Pat is going to kick you out of the prolife club.
Okay, if you agree zygote doesn’t equal person, then how do we go about balancing rights of the mother and the zygote.
How do we determine what rights an organism has at each stage of development?