A slightly interesting thing regarding the whole abortion debate:

Biblically speaking (Leviticus 17:1-14), life is in the blood. A developing human does not begin producing blood until around the 21st to 23rd week of pregnancy.

The medical definition of death is The uniform determination of death. The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in 1980 formulated the Uniform Determination of Death Act. It states that: “An individual who has sustained either (1) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions, or (2) irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem is dead.

If life is the opposite of death, then one could be said to be a living being with the presence of brain stem activity. Brain waves have been detected as early as eight weeks.

The irony here, to me, is that the biblical reference would put life at around the end of the second trimester while the scientific reference would put life beginning in the first.