Life Begins

"When Does Life Begin"

What has always been a major debate between the pro life and pro choice movements, has become clearer to me that both miss the mark in their understanding of the ideology of when life begins.

In the Right to Life movement, it is axiomatic that life begins at conception. This is the bedrock principle used in every argument that I have heard in the abortion debate. The assumption appears to be that placing the beginning of life at conception is biblically based and that it therefore has divine sanction. Thus, those who argue for the reversal of Roe Vs. Wade, for example, make the case that the Supreme Court was in essence usurping the authority of God in allowing abortion unconditionally during the first trimester, and conditionally during the second trimester of a woman's pregnancy. In such cases, abortion amounts to murder as it is a human life that is being terminated.

But where in the Bible is the belief to be found that life begins at conception? What I find resoundingly communicated is the fundamental idea that God is the creator of life.

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