That which a person makes

6 day old human embryo is beginning to implant into the endometrium, the lining of the uterus.

five days after the fertilisation of an egg, with some remaining sperm cells still sticking around. This fluorescent image was captured using a confocal microscope. The embryo and sperm cell nuclei are stained purple while sperm tails are green. The blue areas are gap junctions, which form connections between the cells.

a purple, colour-enhanced human egg sitting on a pin. The egg is coated with the zona pellicuda, a glycoprotein that protects the egg but also helps to trap and bind sperm. Two coronal cells are attached to the zona pellicuda.

Is it a person yet? Does it have a right to life? Does it have a soul? Or is the fact that up to 50% of human conceptions will naturally and spontaneously abort of some relevance?

See more beautiful microscopic images at Environmental Graffiti.