Lila Rose

So there's size.

Then there is level of development.

It is clear that an embryo is less developed than in a fetus.

And a fetus is less developed than a newborn, a newborn than a toddler, than an adolescent, than an adult, etc.

But your level of development as a human life, we all begin life as a single-cell embryo.

We'll end life, hopefully, you know, in our gray old glory years when we die peacefully in our beds.

That's what we hope, right?

No, I'm joking.

But our level of development also does not determine or negate our humanity.

We are humans that are developing.

And if you, again, tie legal status or rights, human rights, basic human rights like life, the right to not be killed, to our level of development, then I would say it's an elitist society where the strong get to have tyranny over the weak.

Then there's environment.

Clearly the child in the womb is in the womb, not outside the womb.

A lot of people say, well, birth is personhood.

You're suddenly at life outside of the womb.

You have legal status.

But your environment in any other context wouldn't determine your humanity because you're born in a different country, born to a different family.

You're in a different location that doesn't change your humanity.

And then finally, your degree of dependency.

It is clear.