In regard to John Kowalski’s letter (“Zygotes not equal to born people,” Our Readers’ Views, June 12) I have a couple of questions.
Can you or anyone in the medical or scientific fields pinpoint the exact moment when those “zygotes, blastocysts, and fetuses” become human lives other than at conception?
I get the impression that this letter-writer feels that fetuses, zygotes and blastocysts are not quite human because they are not sentient, and the proof of this is that, “There are no people who have reliable memories of being in their mother’s uterus.” I doubt that there are any “born people” who have any reliable memories for the first couple of years of their life outside their mother’s uterus.
Following that line of reasoning, does this make infants and toddlers less than human?
