Operative word there is baby. Killing a handful of cells is not the same as killing a baby. I scrape off cells off of my skin everyday. Does that make me a baby killer. I dont think so.
A baby is also a collection of cells.
Reasoning free-willed individuality is the ethical basis (though not a necessary condition) for rights. To extend rights to newborns, we must recognize rights on the basis of potential for reasoning free-willed individuality. And in so doing, we extend rights to the unborn as well.
Oh come now - do we have to re-explain basic science and genetics to you?
....some people are obviously blind by choice.
Killing a handful of cells is not the same as killing a baby. I scrape off cells off of my skin everyday. Does that make me a baby killer. Dave S
If the 'handful of cells' is an embryo, killing that embryo is killing the organism, not merely terminating cells like skin cells ... which, BTW, are usually already dead when sloughed; the basal cell layer is where the alive cells as sub-units of the organ called skin are located. And skin, as you've had explained to you, is an organ sub-unit of the organism.
Your effort to speciously parallel lumps of cells to a whole organism at embryo age is getting more blatant. Do you have other specious games that might be less obvious? Try them ...