(09-21-2020, 11:39 AM)TJBender Wrote:

(09-21-2020, 11:21 AM)mikesez Wrote: Science can't conclusively answer when life begins.  That's a metaphysical question.  Science can only tell us physical facts.  
Science tells us that each embryo has a unique combination of human (not chimp, not lizard, only human) DNA that has never existed before and will never exist again.  Science tells us that most human embryos that are detectable on ultrasound will develop into a healthy baby ready to be born if they are simply left alone inside the mother.
These scientific facts should guide and confine our ethics and metaphysics, but, ethics and metaphysics are matters of opinion, not physical fact.

That depends on who you ask. And that's another compelling reason why the citizens of each state should be the final arbiters of the issue via a vote/amendment/whatever in their state and for their state. This is a topic that should not have been touched by unelected Presidential appointees in the first place.