Quote Originally Posted by Mhaphew View Post
We must not confuse potentiality with actuality. An embryo is a potential human being. It can, granted the woman's choice, develop into an infant. But what it actually is during the first trimester is a mass of relatively undifferentiated cells that exist as a part of a woman's body. If we consider what it is rather than what it might become, we must acknowledge that the embryo under three months is something far more primitive than a frog or a fish. To compare it to an infant is ludicrous.
To say that an embryo is only potentially human is ridiculous. I will fully agree with you that an embryo is a potential adult, but it is already a human. It is completely human from the moment of conception. It is not yet able to walk, or talk, or anything that most adults can do - but it is human.