Seen on Facebook; An extraordinarily well written response to an anti-choice post

[jeff47]

150. Life began about 3.6 billion years ago. It hasn't stopped.

For life to begin at conception, the things doing the conceiving can't be alive. Otherwise, it makes no sense to declare it the beginning of life. Everything involved was already alive.

Both sperm and eggs are alive before conception. So there isn't a "no life" to "life" moment at conception. And the cells that made the sperm and eggs was alive, so life didn't start when they were created. Those cells were made by something alive, and so on and so forth.

So life began 3.6 billion years ago when a cluster of chemicals started replicating itself. Before that, there was nothing alive, so it makes sense to call that when life begins. And there is a continuous link of life from that lump to a baby conceived today.

When is a pile of cells a new human being? When you can deduct it on your taxes. Anti-choicers tell a story of when life begins, but they ensure that they do not have to pay for that story. Kinda indicates it's not really "when life begins".

FYI, implantation fails about 50% of the time after conception. If we apply some basic statistics to your definition of when life begins, virtually every heterosexual woman has killed a child. Kinda indicates there may be a flaw in your definition.