A living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently And clearly a fertilized human egg meets this defintion.

An individual constituted to carry on the activities of life by means of organs separate in function but mutually dependent; a living being. And just as clearly, about every aborted embryo/fetus meets this definition as well.

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"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

OK, I take it back, I suppose you could call it that. I'd always qualify it like "developing organism" myself, but the basic definition is OK.

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