Science certainly doesn't support any such notion, so given the absence of anything approaching secular agreement on when life begins, why should the entire country follow the beliefs of one religious group?
If you can't be intellectually honest about your opposing arguments, it's difficult to trust your position.
Your response here weakens your argument. It is certainly not the gotcha you believe it to be.
So some people do make the arguement.
Likewise lets bring it closer to home and make it more concrete (less Angels on Pins)
Currently there is an Idaho state congressman (who has yet to introduce a bill but announced this week, his name is Brent Crane`), and a Louisiana State Bill`` that has already gone through committee 7-2 who has defined Life in this way, once conceived it is life and the LA state can do homicide charges if that life dies.
`House State Affairs Committee Chairman Brent Crane, R-Nampa, said he would hold hearings on legislation banning emergency contraception and abortion pills during a Friday interview with Idaho Public Television.
``On Wednesday, Louisiana's House Committee for the Administration of Criminal Justice passed House Bill 813, which was authored by Republican state Representative Danny McCormick. The bill, which is being called the "Abolition of Abortion in Louisiana Act of 2022," says that the state should "Fully recognize the human personhood of an unborn child at all stages of development prior to birth from the moment of fertilization."
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We the US, we are a big country with 50 different states, and 7410 State Legislators before other positions like Governor and Attorney General. That is a lot of people and some of them are "nuts"
It is happening!