> Awareness and consciousness is different then responding to stimulus.

This is not some clump of cells that "responds to stimulus" before birth and magically becomes "conscious and aware" after birth. It doesn't even line up with fetal viability.

> We're not talking about human cells being alive. were talking about the whole organism being considered alive and its own thing.

The whole organism is alive and its own thing from conception. This is undisputed among biologists.