I think it’s interesting to note that had there been no opposition to this issue, there would have likely been little support for efforts to find more ethical approaches.

I don’t have a “personal” definition of when life begins. I go by the one given by scientists:

“Fertilization is a sequence of events that begins with the contact of a sperm (spermatozoon) with a secondary oocyte (ovum) and ends with the fusion of their pronuclei (the haploid nuclei of the sperm and ovum) and the mingling of their chromosomes to form a new cell. This fertilized ovum, known as a zygote, is a large diploid cell that is the beginning, or primordium, of a human being.”
[Moore, Keith L. Essentials of Human Embryology. Toronto: B.C. Decker Inc, 1988, p.2]

“The development of a human being begins with fertilization, a process by which two highly specialized cells, the spermatozoon from the male and the oocyte from the female, unite to give rise to a new organism, the zygote.”
[Langman, Jan. Medical Embryology. 3rd edition. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1975, p. 3]

My religious convictions on the matter are that it is wrong to deliberately rob an innocent individual of their life. I’d say most people can agree with that.

Where is your personal definition of life? Due to the continuum of biology (nonevent), I’m wondering where you “decided” to place that marker.

What religion do you consider yourself to be?

Thanks