cells, and should therefore not be considered human at the very early stage of development.
Marquis takes the argument of moral status further by introducing the concept of the
"Future Like Ours" (FLO). If a baby can expect to have a reasonably productive and potentially happy future, Marquis uses this as a premise for believing that fetuses are indeed human from the point of conception. The author uses the birth event as a demonstration: a baby just before and just after birth is equally human, having changed only its location.
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