No. I'm pretty sure they are homo sapiens and not any other species.
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As opposed to the sperm and eggs, which you think are from some other species?
Even you subconsciously place the distinction in your language. Fetuses are homo sapiens. Sperm and ova are from homo sapiens.
There you go begging the question again.
No, that's a biological fact.
... you assume.
Don't be an ostrich. The results of scientific progress are not assumption.
Your arbitrary decision to call a fetus a person has nothing to do with "scientific progress."
I said nothing about personhood, a quasi-mystical, non-empirical concept.
I did say a fetus is an instance of the homo sapiens species, which is irrefutable biological fact.
No, anyone without an anti-choice agenda would describe a fetus in the same terms as a sperm or egg: "from" a homo sapiens, not "an instance" of a homo sapiens.
I have my doubts. I have met people with an anti-life agenda who had the integrity to acknowledge that it was killing a human and they just didn't care because women had the choice of life or death for those not yet born.
But even if so, it's just further evidence that the anti-life position is on the same intellectual level as flat earthers, vaccine conspiracists, and YEC.
Ah man, those anti-choice agenda driven embryologists are at it again.
"A zygote is the beginning of a new human being" - The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology. 7th edition.
"A zygote is the beginning of a new human being" - The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology. 7th edition.