Well, for one thing, we don't celebrate conception days. We celebrate birthdays.
We don't think of when we were conceived. We think of when we were born. Age is determined according to birth, not conception.
During conception and in the womb, the fetus is developing. Birth is when it is completed and life begins, in my view.
Again, I appreciate your openness but I hope you understand how the meanings of the words you are using do not exactly match the conclusions you are making. But, I don't want to get so far into the semantics that we turn this into a battle of definitions.
I appreciate that you oppose abortions, regardless of how you arrived at that conclusion.
That said, your comments above do leave me wondering about what your views on Fetal Homicide laws are.
Those laws make it a crime of MURDER to kill a "child in the womb" during a criminal act and they do in fact define "a child in the womb" as a "child" and as "a human being" in any stage of development while "in the womb."
As a pro-life / anti-abortion leftist, do you support those fetal homicide laws? Or do you think they are wrong and should be overturned?
Well, I support the charging of a double murder should the fetus die with the pregnant mother, though I think some want to punish/criminalize miscarriages. I don't really agree with that.
I don't know anyone who wants to criminalize miscarriages and I have been fighting abortion for 30 years.
You said that you support charging someone with double murder if the 'fetus' dies with the mother. That's great. I do too.
But the charge of MURDER means that the 'fetus' killed was something more than just a clump of cells doesn't it?
Isn't MURDER by definition, the criminal killing of one "person" by another?
The fetus is developing, though, and a would be person upon birth.
Can a person be convicted of MURDER for killing a "would be" person?
Do you think any lawyers defending the accused would not challenge that?
Also, I have to ask.... what are you using to define what a "person" is and when "personhood" begins?
To me, it is someone who has been born. Personhood begins at birth. I don't see myself as someone who was a person when I was in the womb. I see myself as someone who was developing for nine months.