[mcg1969]

Your offered reasoning does work to dehumanize the earliest ages of the individual human being's life.

Not if it serves to correct the anthropomorphism of the zygote/blastocyst, it doesn't. In other words I can't dehumanize something if it is not human.

And since we don't know God's opinion on the issue, I repeat again I would expect a bit more respect from a fellow pro-lifer.

[MHGinTN]

Quite a tirade there! How can you accuse me or anyone else defending the zygote as an individual human being of anthropomorphism regarding the zygote if you haven't been given the knowledge to know when it is that God brings the spirit to the body? To the contrary, it appears you've assigned humanity rather arbitrarily.

[hocndoc]

By taxonomic definition, the zygote with human parentage is human.