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The next step is to establish what counts as human, a human being, a child, or a person. These are seperate questions, but rather necessary if we're going to get to the core of it.
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A newborn child meets the criteria for being a human being, despite the fact that it can't walk, talk or does it have proper control of it's bowels. But a fetus, which would be the discussion at hand, is going to be a bit more difficult to decide.
Depends on what way you look at human to begin with. Using human as a noun is saying that:
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1. A member of the genus Homo and especially of the species H. sapiens.
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Having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings.
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A fetus isn't a member of Homo Sapiens because it isn't self-aware, it cannot make decisions for itself. That is what I believe anyways, a fetus is not human until it has the basic functions of the brain down.
EDIT: Bastards.
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