[MHGinTN]

You continue to err, biologically. 'Potential'?... If we look at a toddler, that individual human life 'has the potential to become post-pubescent, but it isn't there yet' ... do you see the absurdity of your arbitrary assignation? The first totipotent cell zygote that you were at one time along your lifetime had something no other cell of you has had since ... 'potential to build everything you needed to survive in the womb, while building the body you are using now' ... but all that followed your zygote age developed at YOUR INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION. To err in comparing the somatic cell in your mouth or even your crotch as equivalent to the zygote is very uneducated of you. Try to catch up to the scientific facts, if you're going to pontificate.

[Modernman]

If we look at a toddler, that individual human life 'has the potential to become post-pubescent, but it isn't there yet' ... do you see the absurdity of your arbitrary assignation?

You're arguing apples and oranges. A toddler and a post-adolescent are both fully-actualized humans, existing outside of the womb. To compare either of them to a cluster of a couple of dozen cells doesn't make sense. To compare that cluster of cells to a several-month-old baby growing in the womb also doesn't make sense.

but all that followed your zygote age developed at YOUR INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION.

My point is, though the zygote may have had the potential to become a human being, it isn't there yet. I draw the line at a different point than you as to when a human being begins (though I agree with you as to where life begins).