That's my point, they are alive just as much as your skin cells are, or a bug. Or, in fact, like I said, less than a bug, since they serve no function, and do not respond to stimuli; moreover, they are less of a human than a dead person is. If you think that a fetus is a living thing, you should seriously re-think your definition of living. If your view on it is derived from Chirstianity or another religion, say so, since your views on life are inherently different, and we can have no compromise of intellect, since you would be inside of faith-based truth instead of scientific truth. There is nothing wrong with that, it's simply different than me.