The idea that life begins at conception is religious not scientific.

I'm not anti-abortion, but there is a tendency to play ridiculous linguistic games around all of this.

There's no scientific reason for pro-abortion, atheist, secular, progressive, liberal people like myself to pretend that life doesn't begin at conception, regardless of whether that life is viable on its own outside of the womb yet.

Bacteria is a simple life form.

Let's just be real about all of this.

Now the question of whether all life, or life at various stages of development has [i]rights[/i], where those rights come from, and whether those rights can ever be interfered with (at [i]any[/i] age, in any demographic) is an entirely separate issue. Don't conflate that with biology and when life begins, that's a pointless, disingenuous diversion/distraction.