[TurboZamboni]

If brainwave activity (or lack thereof) can be the criteria for death, then why not also life?

Seems like a pretty bright line.

[Joe 6-pack]

Actually, the unique DNA created at fertilization is used to identify individuals all the time. Our courts convict and exhonerate based on the fact DNA essentially defines a unique individual (identical twins excepted).

Similarly there's another FReeper whose name I can't recall who has a thought provoking tagline...suppose the Mars Explorer found a freshly fertilized egg on Mars. Would scientists be able to claim they found evidence of life? If it's evidence of life on another planet, why not on earth?

[Strategerist]

Considering Personhood was easily voted down in Mississippi, it has no hope anywhere else.

So, as I asked then:

1) Should every miscarriage be investigated as a possible murder?

2) Should there be some sort of monitoring and testing system imposed to detect the millions of fertilized eggs that fail to implant, again as part of potential murder investigations? Do we include all of those in child mortality statistics?