The “group of cells” makes up a human being. We are all made of cells, but what matters is that we are human beings.

Many people think that a newly conceived human being is not really human because it does not look or behave like a human being. But this is what a human being behaves and looks like at this stage in his or her life. We all looked like that once.

Some people feel that there’s no problem destroying an early embryo because there are no easily recognisable human features present: it doesn’t look like a baby, so it isn’t a baby. Yet to destroy the embryo would be like aborting an unborn baby at any other stage of life before birth or killing a human being at any stage after birth. Human beings should not be judged on their appearance.