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nota bene didn't say zygotes were unique, but that they were uniquely created. They are distinct from the woman because you can make them in petri dishes. But neither of those facts changes anything, because a zygote doesn't have the right to stay in your body without your consent, just as a blastocyst doesn't have the right to implant, etc.
To be clear, what she said was "Even a zygote is a uniquely created individual life distinct from the mother."
The subject of that sentence is "life", as in "a life". IMO, there is no individual life immediately after the sperm enters the egg.
To clarify further, I don't care when it becomes an individual life. My position on abortion is determined by the constitution not granting the govt. the power to protect the rights of the unborn. So even if it is an individual life, it makes no difference as far as I'm concerned. It still would not be protected by law, and so a woman would still be able to terminate a pregnancy even if it is "an individual human life"