Except that until the embryos have brains (which are NONEXISTENT until about 8 weeks), they ARE just body parts.
Jenny, the embryo is building the body to provide life support when outside the female's body. During this time the human being (the human organism you want to open for cannibalism because he or she hasn't yet built the entire nervous system) is being sustained by the first organ he or she made for survival, an organ that will be discarded when born. Do you know for certain when there is a soul present with the body of the being alive in the womb? If you cannot tell at what age this soul becomes resident with the organism growing and thriving in the womb, then why slaughter them for cannibalistic intent?
Are you brain dead? Or just a Darwinist?
Isn't the brain a body part? Regardless, a human being is more than the sum of his parts.
You are simply rationalizing abortion. How do I know? Because you wouldn't congratulate your expectant friend on her new "body parts," you'd congratulate her for her new baby. Babies become "body parts" when people want to justify killing them.
Perhaps you recall our discussion a while back on Ayn Rand. One of Rand's famous dicta was "A is A." Here, you're saying it's not. Just pointing that out to you....
Bodies such as those in a morgue, that have no chance to ever live again, that are used for organ donation are body parts, hopefully with their prior consent.
How cold.
once you are created and form a one-cell blast you are a person. you have ALL of your HUMAN dna, the dna you have now is the same dna you had when conceived.
No quite. More like 5 weeks.
http://www.drspock.com/article/0,1510,4548,00.html
Week 5: Eyes are starting to form, a mouth-like opening appears near the "head"; finger and toes are beginning to form. The brain now has three recognizable divisions, as it does in the fully-developed baby and adult.
Not only that but at 3 weeks, the baby has a beating heart.
Week 3: A third cell layer has appeared, roughly a "middle" layer. The inner, outer, and middle layers of cells are destined to become different tissues in the developing fetus, such as skin and nerves, intestines, and muscle. The heart has begun to pump; the brain and spinal cord begin as a tube-like structure. You miss your first menstrual period.
Except that until the embryos have brains (which are NONEXISTENT until about 8 weeks), they ARE just body parts.
Except that they are still human beings, just at a different stage of development. Why should age be the criteia for determining whether one is *human* or not?