re: #53 Charles

A blastocyst is a potential human being, nobody denies that. But one thing it is not is a “baby.”

I thought that was my point, that it is not (yet) a person. I’m simply saying that to discuss “human beings” when the term applies equally to legal non-person entities such as a blastocyst or post brain death Terri Schiavo isn’t properly descriptive, and really misses the point. We call a baby a baby because it has become a person and is no longer a mere human being. George Tiller helped prevent terrible mockeries of personhood, such as present in cases of anencephaly. George Tiller was a hero.