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foetus. or fetus for americans. the word for a "no-born" baby is unborn, too.
Personally I'm in favour of teaching contraception and safe sex rather than abstinence (the figures from many american studies incontavertably prove that teaching exclusively abstinence leads to increased rates of pregnancy and STDs among teenagers) and in favour of abortion if that's what a woman wants (though I refuse to use the term "pro-choice", mainly because it implicitly aknowledges the validity of the disgusting anti-liberal rightwing term "pro-life", as if people who are in favour of abortion are ANTI-life. Blech!). Obviously there needs to be a limit on how late a termination can be carried out (for non-medical reasons), as there is now.
If a zygote is a human life it can only be said to be one
in potentia since there's no way to guarantee its survival, so by extension every sperm and egg in the body is equally a life
in potentia, in which case any menstrual cycle in which you are not impregnated and every ejaculation outside a vagina can be considered as murder (mass murder in the latter case) - a foetus can't really be considered a human being with full rights until it reaches the point where it has a significant chance of survival outside of the womb, which is around about where the current limit for abortion is in most countries that allow it at all. This is getting earlier as time goes by with advances in medicine, but there will come a point where that halts - and the question of whether we even need or want to go that far is another one entirely.