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Rath said:
The word 'a' implies indepedence, I believe that it is 'life' not 'a life' because it is entirely dependent on its mother.


To throw my hat into the semantics ring, isn't a child still fully dependent on others since it cannot work or even take care of itself without someone else intervening? Does that make a child not "a life" but "life"? (mostly a joke, but your reasoning begs this question)