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Originally Posted by Liberty4eva
And the "life doesn't begin at conception" theory is just a loophole they create so they can sleep at night and not feel like murderers. Whether or not there is a god, those who say life does not begin at conception will inevitably play god. And that's because life must begin at some point. There must be some point where it, for lack of a better word, graduates from a clump of cells and tissue with no rights to a human being with all rights that you and I have. If that moment is not at conception then perhaps it's the moment the baby is delivered? Perhaps it's the moment when the brain is fully developed? Perhaps it's the moment when it can recognize its mother's voice? Perhaps it's the moment the US Supreme Court ruled life begins which is when the baby could theoritically live outside of the womb? Perhaps it's, as someone commented here, 20 weeks after conception? Whatever it is, those of you who are arrogant enough to say "life doesn't begin at conception" have the responsibility to say when life truly does begin. Whatever that moment is YOU ARE PLAYING GOD. I, on the other hand, refuse to play god and will say life may begin at conception and, that being the case, this baby/fetus should be given the benefit of the doubt.
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If that is your belief, that life begins at conception you will also be against the use of some forms of the contraceptive pill, IUD and implanted contraceptives?
After all most of those devices work by making the womb an inhospitable place to the fertilised egg and preventing it from implanting itself into the lining of the womb. That means in your argument that the new life has already begun and the contraceptive pill etc. simply carries out a very early abortion.
The only contraceptives that you would then advocate would be ones that prevent fertilisation, condom, femidom, diaphragm, spermicides and the few pills that either prevent the egg from being released or destroy sperm en route to the unfertilised egg?
That's quite inconvenient for pro lifers who use the pill, isnt it?