[DoraC]

The other day I was debating with someone who held that unborn babies are nothing but "clumps of cells" until one month gestation; my position is that a tiny human being is a human being no matter how small.

Yeah, but when does it become a human being? Is it a human being one second after conception? Maybe even before conception?

[Dawsonville_Doc]

Yeah, but when does it become a human being?...Maybe even before conception?

Pre-conception humanity rights would require the criminalization of masturbation. Wet dreams would become mis-demeanors.

[little jeremiah]

Your body was once a tiny clump of cells. Allowed to grow, that body got born and is now as you see in the mirror. It could never have grown into a banyan tree, a giraffe, or a sea sponge.

And unless it was killed, it would inevitably become a born baby.

Your point?

[calex59]

Yeah, but when does it become a human being? Is it a human being one second after conception? Maybe even before conception?

In my opinion it is a human being at the moment of conception because all the equipment is there, complete, he/she just needs time to grow, but is still human. Before condeption there is no human, it takes the egg to be fertilized by the sperm before a human is formed, after that, from the first moment of coneption, it is human. This is a no brainer from my point of veiw.