Good evening Lizards!

From a quick review of the 650 (!) posts on this thread and the amount of blood on the water, I’m assuming this a culling thread.

So, first off, can you buy me a pint, Jimmah? I’ll take the 7 shilling.

Second, we have a pretty good definition of human death. No higher cerebral cortex function, no human. This is what allows us to harvest organs, for the good of those in need of them, from functionally dead humans. All well and good. Established law and precedent.

Why is it, if we have a working definition of human death, we don’t have a definition of human life? The human embryo, at various points in its early development, has a tail, gills, and absolutely no forebrain. In fact, until the latter second trimester, the human fetus would not meet the criterion of a head shot human as far as cerebral cortex brain function is concerned.

No human brain function, no human.

Perhaps this is a starting point for a discussion of when human life begins in the womb?