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A counter-example to Paul’s premise 2 is a human cancer cell, as Marquis points out. When a human cancer cell appears in my body, it is a human individual according to the criterion in premise 1: “a life is begun which is neither that of the father nor the mother; it is rather new human life with its own growth.” But no one thinks an individual human cancer cell is a human person. Indeed, almost any individual cell in a human body is a counter-example. The only human cell that would not be an effective counter-example here is a fertilized ovum, since Paul holds that such a cell is a person. We can predict he would not hold that a red blood cell in my body is a person. A cancer cell is more effective as a counter-example than any healthy human cell, because we actually desire to destroy cancer, unlike healthy cells. Yet they would be protected, as it seems, according to Paul’s principle.