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>To me, this is not a philosophical argument.

Why? Determining what is and isn't life is based on human reasoning, judgement, and morality. Have you found an alternate approach that was somehow missed by everyone else? :)

>If you call it murder to end a pregnancy at any stage, as the GP does, then women are hostages of a life not yet able to survive on its own.

Perhaps you missed the stem cell therapy treatment context that was being discussed. We're only talking about embryos, not pregnancy.



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Is there some new fangled means for embryos to grow into babies that don't involve a human womb?

Do you concede that the definition of a human life involves philosophical reasoning?

You began by assuming something that nobody had said AFAIK. Then you started on another tangent about pregnancy and abortion rights, now you're onto something else. Sorry, I don't have the time to respond to your off topic comments.


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