[Havisham]

Yes, it is the central connundrum to agree upon when an individual human being is worthy of protection, hence the effort to expose the biological realities of prenatal life. The issue bears also upon how our society will deal with embryonic exploitation and cloning.

Thank you for your affirmative comment. Would you agree that requiring a life to be fully functional and whole has obvious implications for protection of the infirm and elderly?

[MHGinTN]

Please go to the first repsonse on this thread and click on the link to the essay that preceeded this one (more depth on the organ harvesting 'death protocol'). The elderly and infirm fit the clear protocol definition of functioning integrated whole for the title of human being. It is the author's contention that the same is fitting for the embryonic indiividual.