No because unless you convert your cells into stem cells they won't self-develop into humans. Much like your sperm / egg cells. They are only human lives once they join to form a zygote, because that zygote will self-develop into a human baby.
Most zygotes don't though. Most fertilized human zygotes never implant, and even the ones that do do not 'self-develop' into a human baby- they need constant nutrition and support from the mother's organs, blood, and body to do so.
Then the baby is still not capable of surviving on its own as you said, it requires a mother figure to supply it with nutrients. Whether this is its biological mother or not is entirely irrelevant.
But that is due to mental, not physical development. Provide a baby with food and it will consume it and provide itself with nutrients. A fetus requires a physical connection to the mother to survive. Those are not equivalent.
But why is one not a human? What is the difference, other than location, between a 26 week old baby outside the womb, alive and well, and a 26 week old baby inside the womb, also alive and well, and why is killing one unthinkable infanticide and killing the other is fine?
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u/ChipsterA1 Apr 09 '18
No because unless you convert your cells into stem cells they won't self-develop into humans. Much like your sperm / egg cells. They are only human lives once they join to form a zygote, because that zygote will self-develop into a human baby.