“… having a full set of human DNA does not give the zygote full human rights – including the right not to be aborted during its gestation. Don’t believe me? Here, try this: reach up to your head, grab one strand of hair, and yank it out. Look at the base of the hair. That little blob of tissue at the end is a hair follicle. It also contains a full set of human DNA. …Your hair follicle shares everything in common with a human zygote except that it is a little bit bigger and it is not a potential person. (These days even that’s not an absolute considering our new-found ability to clone humans from existing DNA, even the DNA from a hair follicle.)”
Brian Elroy McKinley, author of “Why Abortion is Biblical” in his essay “Why Abortion is Moral” as cited in Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints published by Greenhaven Press, 2002
