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NightlyPoe said:
collint0101 said:

Your definition of life sounds very grounded in religion with no real scientific backing

As I said to the other poster, science has very little to do with this.  It's an ethical question.  Science can help (as I just demonstrated by providing an accurate distinguishing feature between gametes and zygotes that would label one as a unique organism and the other not), but there is no science that provides a dispositive answer.

For the record, I am not a part of any organized religion.  You have merely shown a bias.  Someone disagrees with you on abortion, you automatically dismiss them as religious and anti-science.

You may not be religious but you're still using their arguments. You're trying to turn feelings and morals into black and white principles and it just doesn't work like that. People and society are way too complex to say everything that happens after the sperm meets the egg is human life and to terminate that would be murder.