Philosopher always emphasized that only human has the moral
issue. Human who has the following characters as defined as human. The fetus
does not have the following characters, which means it does not category as
human beings.
(1) " consciousness (of objects and events external and
/or internal to the being), and in particular the capacity to feel pain;
(2)
reasoning (the developed capacity to solve new
and relatively complex problems)
(3)
self-motivated activity (activity which is
relatively independent of either genstic or direct external control);
(4)
the capacity to communicate, by what ever means, messages of an indefinite variety of types,
that is, not just with an indefinite number of possible contents, but on
indefinitely man possible topics
(5)
the presence of self-concepts, and self
awareness, either individual or racial, or both. "(By Mary Anne Warren)
If human following
these characters to define that fetus is not a human beings. It is kind of Anthropocentric,
although fetus has the potentials to become the human beings.