Contrary to popular opinion, DU is supposed to be for politically *liberal* people. Either that or

[Spider Jerusalem]

193. A fertilised egg is not a child. Nor is a zygote. Nor is an embryo.

Nor is a six-week foetus. A spermatozoon and an egg are alive, because they are living human cells, as is a zygote, as is an embryo, but none of those is a separate living human. Until foetal viability (around 22 weeks of gestation, the earliest point when a foetus has any chance of survival outside the womb), it's fatuous to talk of "life" in the sense of "a living human". Not coincidentally this is right around the cutoff for abortion, at 24 weeks. (Statistically speaking, preterm birth at 27 weeks and earlier is associated with an 80% chance of moderate to severe cognitive and other disability, and the survival rate at 22 weeks is only 7%.)

You have the right to believe whatever you want; however you don't have the right to enforce your beliefs on others, especially not when your beliefs are not supported by the majority of qualified medical opinion.