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Originally Posted by Hansmoleman";p="
A sperm is not considered life because it's whole existence is to serve one purpose.. to fertilize the egg.
It (sperm) is not intended to do anything else at all. It is not a lifeform, it is a part of the human reproductive system.
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I consider anything that lives to be alive. Sperm that are dead don't carry out their jobs. Those that are alive do. A fetus has only one purpose, too. Its job is to develop.
On what basis you you require your lifeforms to have more than one function? There are plenty of single and muli-cell organisms that have only one function. Who are we giant organisms to decide which other entities get "life form" designations?
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A fetus, on the other hand, becomes a lifeform... It's purpose is to become a human being, and in many ways, it is the early stages of a human being. Since a fetus can be incubated in a test tube, the mother is not irrelevant, but the mother is only a conduit to foster life.
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You can start a fetus in a petri dish but implantation in the mother must happen very soon after successful fertilization.