Quote Originally Posted by Koga No Goshi View Post
You have to be careful with your terms. It's not a baby in the womb when sperm meets egg. It's an embryo, and then a fetus. You are putting the cart before the horse saying it's a baby. Legally, that is not presently the case. However, if the law is changed so that at the moment of conception, it is a baby with full human rights, the case can also be made that it is therefore a baby created on American soil yes?

Not asking you to agree with that point, just saying that it is NOT an open and shut easy answer.
I see where you're coming from, I just don't think that, with the passage of such a theoretical law, the case would necessarily have to be made.

Being born could still be a recognized "right of passage", like turning 18 and 21. Requiring a baby to actually be born in the United States to receive citizenship would not invalidate that theoretical law.