The science on this is settled. Not even serious pro-choice advocates deny that a fetus is a human being. All the relevant science runs the other way. This is why so much debate now centers on the distinction between “human being” and a “person,” the claim being that only persons have rights. Ironically, the majority opinion in Roe is clear that, at least in terms of US law, a human being is a person. (Pro-choice advocates conveniently forget this, or else they never read Roe in the first place.)
It’s funny that pro-choice advocates want nominees to the Supreme Court to acknowledge the power of “stare decisis” (-precedent.) Ironically, the biggest nightmare for pro-choice advocates would be for the Supreme Court to re-visit Roe and follow Blackmun’s argument: that would force them to outlaw ALL abortions on the ground that ALL fetusus are human beings and that human beings are persons. This is why the argument is framed in terms of “women’s issues” or “women’s health”. Pay no attention to that human being (in bloody pieces) in the wastecan! Sad, sad, sad.
