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I do think it's worth pointing out that the typical view of "pro-life"/"anti-abortion" folks is that a fetus, as an individual organism, is "a life", but reproductive cells like sperm and eggs, on their own, are not. And it is generally the status as an organism that they say grants moral personhood, not brain function or other specific demonstration of abilities.