Top 10 Anti-Abortion Myths

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11. Yes, I love number ten

I was thinking about this "conception" issue today and my thought process was that conception does not mean a new human is formed, it means a joining of living cells. Every day when you wash your face, you kill some of your live cells. Some cells live and some cells die, and some new cells are generated to replace older cells that have died. Just like people who are born to replace others who have died. It's just a life process, but lots of things happen to change or interrupt those processes.

From an atheist's perspective, I will ask that if all fertilized eggs (conception) are meant to become a living delivered child, by some higher power, then why are there so many natural miscarriages? Many fertilized eggs are miscarried, or never attach to the womb, and no-one even knows it happened.

Many fertilized eggs are deformed and never should be brought to term because they will suffer and die, yet some believe that because they have a "soul" from the point of conception, they need to be born. I wonder if that means that as medicine advances these people will attempt to keep these deformed fetuses from naturally aborting, and force them to be born even though the body would normally reject them? How far will this "religion" thing go?