(Except you weren’t a human. You were a fertilized egg. You were the beginning stages of mitosis. Not a human.)

Right sorry. Things magically become human at birth. Lol forgot.

Actually—

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Your cells, skin cells, feet cells, heart cells, muscle cells, brain cells, etc. have DNA. That should be no surprise to you.

What is surprising is that the cells in your skin hold the DNA for your heart. The cells in your lungs hold the DNA for your feet. The cells everywhere in your body hold all the DNA for every other cell. Touch your tongue. You’re touching cells that hold information for your intestines, your stomach, your eyes, ALL of you.

Excluding red blood cells, of course, since they have no nuclei and therefore no DNA.

But here is where it is interesting.

In fact, when the embryo grows this big, it has the same exact genetic information as before. There is more DNA, but the DNA is the same. It only reprints the same instruction manual over and over.

Just one cell of this embryo holds all the DNA for gender, hair color, nose shape, the length of his/her toes, any genetic disorders, and even gene-influenced personality traits.
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So, even if this embryo is not human to you, the only thing it will ever be is human. It has no DNA to be a frog or an oak tree. It only has the DNA to code and form a human.

All of those cells are human cells. How could you say they are not human? What else could it be? Certainly not a frog, certainly not an oak tree!

All humans are deserving of life. All lives are worthy of protection.