Yes, we can.

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

You could ask the same question about any person walking down the street. I don't really understand this line of thinking.

Yes, you can. It just means that acknowledging that something called "life" begins at conception does not end the debate. If it did, then you could not have capital punishment. You might then say, well, in the abortion context, we're talking about innocent life. However, at that point, you're in the territory of moral judgments and have moved beyond the "when does life begin" argument as the determining factor of whether there is or should be the right to terminate a pregnancy.