[MrLeRoy]

if those bodies, or parts of bodies, have no right to life, why does a collection of cells that ALSO has no brain, have a "right to life?"

Because it has the potential to have a reasoning free-willed brain.

[MrLeRoy]

... as I already explained at length in post #308.

[Mark Bahner]

"Because it has the potential to have a reasoning free-willed brain."

OK, does an anencephalitic fetus have a "right to life?" That is, a right to be born (since they are guaranteed to die, within, at most, a few days)?

http://www.mit.edu/afs/net.mit.edu/project/attic/usa-today/news/43