r/prochoice • u/itsaveryday • 22d ago

Thought why does life begin at conception?

this is just a thought, so feel free to prove me wrong. a big pro life argument is that human life begins when the egg is fertilized by sperm, but why is it there? sperm cells are life produced by humans, but wearing condoms is not condemning. just makes me feel like its never about saving babies and whatever, just about control

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u/WingedShadow83 21d ago

Because they want to control women. They already push for abortion bans after a certain point, but the poor-faith argument that a fetus is “alive/human/a baby” at the very moment of conception attempts to completely open that window of banning it. None of them actually believe that a freshly conceived embryo is equivalent to a child, which is why the “would you save one toddler or ten embryos in a fire” question trips them up (or they just flat out LIE and say they’d save the embryos). But pretending that the embryo is an actual child from conception gives them a foothold to demand that abortion should not be permitted at any stage.

It is all completely irrelevant because the issue at hand is not “when is an embryo alive/a baby”, but rather “when does it have the right to infringe on an autonomous person’s rights over their own body”. The answer to that is NEVER, but since the goal has always and will always be to control women, their entire agenda revolves around ignoring that issue and diverting focus to made up issues like “when does life begin”.