moral implications and other factors. I don’t necessarily care if life begins at conception. Science suggests that non sentient human beings without nerve receptors can’t physically feel pain. I morally value the life of a being with the capacity to deploy agency rather than the cellular beginnings of a human.
Then we agree it’s alive, distinct, and growing. What you’re defending is the right to end a life, not because it’s not alive, but because you’ve decided it’s beneath moral concer. You’re just saying some lives don’t matter until you decide they do. That’s exactly the logic every eugenic regime in history has used. Wild that you’re a biomedical grad student and still can’t distinguish ontology from opinion.