Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
No. It is not a 'potential human life'. It is a human life with potential. There's a fairly significant difference, there.

There is nothing at all nebulous about my definition - it is purely scientific. Human life starts at conception and ends at death.
Well, that may be your view but my point is that there is no broad consensus on what defines human life and people could make a strong argument that there are serious flaws in your definition (a fully formed human being who had suffered a brain injury but was still capable of living and breathing is not a human life but a collection of dividing cells with no form or ability to feel or breath is?) as they could with pretty much every other definition.

As such, I fail to see how we can use the concept in any sensible way when attempting to address the issue with abortion. It is the complicated nature of this definition which causes the confusion, not the fact that people refuse to accept your particular definition.