*stares* Brinne, you ARE joking, aren't you? I simply can't believe that an intelligent person, as you seem to be, can dispute the simple biological fact that LIFE begins at conception. It's not a religious argument, it's simple biology. From the moment the egg is fertilized, a new human being has begun and that human being IS alive. Life does not come from death, after all. The unborn is not miraculously somehow ALIVE at some point in the pregnancy, but dead before.