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Where do you draw the line? What is not human to you, an egg? A sperm? Every single cell in your organism?
That's besides that you are dodging the question, since everyone with eyes can tell that a blastula is not the same as a fully developed human. It's a stage in human development.
In nature, eggs and sperm are regularly discarded, sperm exists in it's millions. It's not the same thing as a full human. I may not have a definitive answer for when the development becomes a human, but it's certainly not the moment it leaves it's mother's womb.
Also, born babies aren't fully developed humans either. It's not really possible to view humanity as a binary thing.
So you recognize that humans have a developmental process. You agree that sperm and egg are not a human. So somewhere in between there must be a line or we at least can come up with some criteria to define a line. So why are you against abortions, since you seem to not think that a blastula is indeed the same as a child?
I don't think the line is birth. We can quite clearly see with technology that a child does indeed exist within the womb.
So where is the line, since you were talking about abortion in general.