[Tauzero]

I pretty much agree with everything you posted except:

"* Dr. McCarthy de Mere, medical doctor and law professor, University of Tennessee, testified: "The exact moment of the beginning of personhood and of the human body is at the moment of conception."

Whether a fertlized ovum is a person, or should be treated as such in law, is not a testable scientific question. The statement of the doctor is not science.

[Diamond]

The fertilized ovum is undeniably alive. It's genetic code is undeniably human. Therefore it is human life. But is it a human life? I don't think so.

Whether a fertlized ovum is a person, or should be treated as such in law, is not a testable scientific question. The statement of the doctor is not science.

Regarding your distinction between a human life and a person, what is the difference?

Cordially,