Re: Any anti-abortion atheists?

> A sperm and an egg 
> join together and create a new human. Neither the sperm nor 
> the egg by themselves are ~a~ human. They are part of a 
> human.
> 

I'm curious.  Why do you attribute the word "Human" to a sperm and an
egg togethar?  Surely it's just a cell (I believe it's called a
"zygote").  Yes, the cell has the potential to fiddle with acids,
proteins and mitosis, eventually forming a human body.  But if you
call the zygote human because it has the potential to become a human,
then why aren't a sperm and an egg also "human"?  Afterall, they also
have the potential to form a human.