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Originally Posted by Tophat665
Understanding that opposition to abortion, for instance, is rooted in a belief that life begins at conception does not do anything for me but convince me that the people who hold that belief have something fundamentally wrong with their thought process, and, given that these people are often neo-pharisees (Which is how I tend to see religious legalists in any religion), I suspect that what is wrong with their thought process is their misunderstanding of the bible.
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It's not so much a "belief" that life begins at conception as it is common knowledge. The life of a zygote, at any rate.
Now, if the question were whether
human life begins at conception...then it gets much more interesting. Science can't tell us when it becomes human, science can only tell us when it becomes viable, or when twinning is no longer a possibility. It's a philosophical question, a question that even perfectly rational secularists can disagree upon.
But feel free to tout "it's just a bunch of cells" as the obviously correct answer. I mean, only ignorant religious folk getting their belief wholly from a misunderstanding of the bible would find such an answer unconvincing.