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Also, law can define things differently from biology.
I would say law must operate with different concepts from those biology uses; its purpose is very different. That leaves one with two options: come up with separate words for the different concepts, or use the same word for concepts that are similar.
Actually, biology uses “organism” for something that’s living (not a precise definition), so one could refer to an embryo as a “human organism” without claiming it as a “human life” in the legal sense.
(Yeah, I know that’s a pretty basic point but sometimes those basic points bear repeating–especially to those (*cough*anti-choicers*cough*) who insist on conflating them as part of their argumentation strategy.)
