[MHGinTN]

Please go to the first repsonse on this thread and click on the link to the essay that preceeded this one (more depth on the organ harvesting 'death protocol'). The elderly and infirm fit the clear protocol definition of functioning integrated whole for the title of human being. It is the author's contention that the same is fitting for the embryonic indiividual.

[Havisham]

Thank you for the tip. I did read the article, however, I recoiled at its complicating of the issue. Essays of this type are often overlong and wordy, which I believe repels the average person, whom I count myself among. Complexification of the truth of life only makes a rapidly approaching utilitarian future more likely.