Actually, my views are based on science and are not a façade for my “fundamentalism.” I have never once intimated in any of my posts that there is a scientific reason that a fetus is anything more then a non sentient collection of cells. Biologically speaking, however, an embryo is alive. And since an embryo is uniquely human from the moment that an egg and sperm fuse, I would say a unique human “life” begins at conception. Does this unique life deserve a basic right to life? I believe it does. Also, I am not apt to use “sentience” as a benchmark for when a fetus becomes "human" because it looks like it would prohibit a full-term fetus from being considered human. There is new evidence that fetuses do not develop sentience and the ability to feel pain until after the birthing process. The brain circuitry that allows a fetus to feel pain is complete by 26 weeks of gestation. However, the ability to use the circuitry and to subjectively feel pain is prohibited by the chemical environment in the uterus which encourages sleep and suppresses higher-level brain activity.
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