Mouse Words: Deciding on what makes something human

There's a lot of great read between these two parts of this article. She goes on this riff after reading two male bloggers (one pro-life, one pro-choice) debating about abortion, and focuses on the issue of male power in defining the moment of life to be conception. She does all this in a non-academic, very easily read, non-hating way. I loved it! Thanks to LMB for pointing me to her.
Mouse Words: Deciding on what makes something human: "I'm not trying to revive the debate over whether or not men can be feminists, but I think that on the subject of pregnancy and what makes something a human, the issue of male power and how men see themselves in relation to women and women's unique ability to give birth is a critical and unspoken issue.
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All this rhetoric diminishes women's bodies, lives, and experiences. A baby is not just sperm egg nine month wait. Women tend to experience the conception as just a beginning of a long process and a lot of work. There isn't a cell in a baby body that didn't come from a woman's feeding it through her own body, and there's not a baby born that wasn't the result of some woman's hard work. To call a fertilized cell a human being is just one more way that women's work has been dismissed throughout history. "