re: #17 Obdicut
The only possible reason to hold this position is a religious one.
It is an unscientific, even anti-scientific position.
The GOP position on abortion as a whole is really not very far from this.
I don’t see how a ‘fundamental right to life’ for an embryo would allow exceptions for incest or rape.
This is the mainstream GOP position.
Source: Republican Platform adopted at GOP National Convention Aug 12, 2000
They should have come up with a snazzy-sounding name for their new unborn constituents, such as Spermatozoac-Americans, Embryonic-Americans, or Blastocyst-izens.