[jas3]

The answer which I've resolved for myself is that I don't consider a colletion of 7 cells to be a human.

Then you have to answer the question of what exactly those cells are. The answer is not up for debate, it is based on reason and science. Those cells are a human organism at that stage of development on the human species continuum. There is no other answer. Truth is truth.

Then so is an unfertilized human egg "a human organism at that stage of development on the human species continuum. There is no other answer. Truth is truth."

jas3

[syriacus]

Then so is an unfertilized human egg "a human organism at that stage of development on the human species continuum.

Not really.

Put an ordinary unfertilized egg in a petri dish and it will not grow and divide.

An unfertilized egg is on the road to "Nowheresville" unless an outside force gives it a "kick start."

[jwalsh07]

You're scientifically illiterate. I'm trying to help you out here but you're an unwilling participant. Such is life. You may continue to go through life believing that a human egg is a human organism. No dandruff off my skull.