Is a fetus a Human being?
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know what...you're as dense as joey..... which does surprise me. An unfetilized egg is NOT a chicken. It is an unfertilized chicken egg. A chicken egg that has been fertilized..... inside that hard shell..... is a chicken....
Now, since it is IMPOSSIBLE, for the majority of eggs that you buy in the grocery store to be fertilized..... then you would NOT be buying a chicken at any point in it's development.
actually, these days, the "candling" is more for quality control than finding a fertilized egg. Double yokers...rotten..... considering a laying hen spends it's entire life locked in a cage, by itself, just eating, drinking, and laying eggs, it's eggs can't get fertilized.
Now if you're buying free range....that's different.
We grow em. They keep the gardens relatively free of bugs, mice, and lettuce. The eggs vary in size from golfball to goose egg-sized and sometimes have two yolks. The colors vary from a pale green to dark brown. And the yolks are a rich yellow to almost orange. REAL eggs. 
Then I'd be looking at a baby chicken...... at least that's what I always thought I was looking at when I candled the eggs on our farm.
That's as far as I'm taking it. Now if someone wants they can argue rights, or what ever they want. It is a legal, religious issue, not a biological issue.
Yeah. That's a scary thought. Then the smarter ones of us wouldn't be considered humans. At least if the majority had its way.
Then 99.9% of the population is misinformed about the differences, but then, when it comes to chickens, or any other egg layer, they are only interested in eating it.
I candeled my chicken eggs and emu eggs for 2 reasons...chicken to ensure that they weren't fertilized before I sold em.( most people don't like seeing a devoloping chick fall into their frying pan)..emu, to ensure they WERE fertilized before I left em for the male to sit on.
Chicken egg versus human embryo is like apples and oranges anyhow. Mammals attach to a host where avian food is contained within
Even fertilized, I'll bet there isn't farmer in North America who would say "hey Martha, I'm going out to check on the baby chickens".
The opening message proves the fetus is human, where is it you find that a human fetus is not human? Just show me, I'm not locked in the post I made.
and your point is? Just because THEY don't consider it a chicken...or even a developing chicken, doesn't mean it isn't.
I'll say this much though, I have yet to meet a cattle farmer, or sheep farmer, or goat farmer that didn't consider their pregnant livestock to be pregnant with anything other than a baby....be it calf, lamb, or goat.
Definition of human being involves many factors, and size is one of them. Whoever heard of a human being smaller than a full stop (except in sci fi or fantasy stories)? Why, the little guy would be orders of magnitude smaller than Tom Thumb.