[random_ind_dude]

>baby

If, at some point in the future, scientists figure out a way to coax normal cells to become totipotent, will you consider amputation as murder?

[nsxwolf]

No, because you'd have to first take the step of inducing totipotency in the amputated cells?

[ars]

And likewise, here you first to have to first take the step of implanting the embryo in a woman.

Left alone, these cells will not become a child.