I have always said a fetus is a human life in the making. A few strands of DNA are not a human being any more than a blueprint for a house is a house. As for 'potential', I don't buy it, every time you have sex but use birth control you are killing potential human life. So?I have always said a fetus is a developing human life. Abortion kills that potential. IMO that is taking a life really. You can throw all the semantics you want at it but that's the truth. If you kill a pregnant woman and her fetus you could be charged with a double homicide in more than 30 states.