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by mullingitover 3 days ago
> I don't think we have the same reading of the paper.

Strong agreement here.

> Scientific facts inform ethical decisions, they are antecedent to them.

Sometimes, as your paper is saying is the case, they're orthogonal to them.

> but the fact that it is in fact a human child is scientifically settled.

From your article, emphasis mine:

"While this article’s findings suggest a fetus is biologically classified as a human at fertilization"

The problem you have is that this paper doesn't discuss children at all, merely that a fetus is of the human species. It's basically tautological so of course it's essentially unanimous. A human fetus is a human fetus and not, say, a chicken fetus.