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When a woman in your life gets pregnant, do you think early on (say, in the first trimester), "She has a large collection of cells growing in her uterus," or do you think something else? I think something else.
Arguments that a pregnancy becomes a human at some point after the genetic programming gets building have never impressed me terribly. Forty-six chromosomes (or so one hopes), and they get started doing their thing. If that is not biologically a person, I don't know what it is.
Having said that, I am as uninterested in the "it's not a person yet" argument as I am in the "I get to make your medical decisions because that's a person and it's as important as you are" argument. You're pregnant? Your medical issue. Not mine. Same as for most other things. (This arguments changes if the patient is a minor and the thing is, for example, vaccines, in which case we have another question entirely and I'm not hijacking this thread further.)
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