Seems pretty arbitrary. It can’t live outside of the womb as a baby without assistance, so why is that such a significant milestone?

Why on earth would you give legal protection to a fertilized egg after conception, which has no self-awareness, no brain, no heart, nothing at all that makes humans what they are.

Because you know what it will become in X weeks assuming that you don’t kill it. I mean, why do we give extra legal protection to children? They are more protected than adults even though they are far less emotionally and mentally developed. Yet we know they will become adults with full legal rights at some point.

Maybe that’s because they are more vulnerable, and less capable of defending themselves? Now how does a fertilized egg compare to a child? Seems even more helpless, and perhaps that makes it even more worthy of legal protection.