re: #195 Dar ul Harbarian

Life does begin at conception. It is a scientific fact.

But not sentient life. That too is a scientific fact and the crux of the debate.

For that matter sperm are alive too and so are ova, but gametes are not people either.

As a very simple thought question, is someone who is brain dead alive? Turn it around, is a fetus, who has yet to grow a brain a person in the same sense given that we consider brain dead to be dead?