Once conception has occurred, the nascent human being has all of the DNA it will ever have.  The blueprint is in place and the building of the human being begins.  Obviously, human life begins at conception.  What other arbitrary point in time could someone pick to compete with this moment?

He stil didn’t answer the question.  This baby killer doesn’t want to admit when it is because then it will highlight his position even more and turn even more Americans against this evil man.

In reponse to Dougx and so many others. I believe that for any woman to know that she can conceive and choses not to attempt it, performs the very same act as someone who uses a condom or any other form of birth control. If viable life can be created and a choice is made not to avail oneself of that opportunity, then they have terminated that life opportunity. So although there is no neat point at which ‘life’ begins, the idea that conception and the growth of cells into a nascient human has the appeal of simplicity. It is not all the simple after all.

Simpler mike: SEX IS FOR PROCREATION ONLY!!! THOU SHALT NOT ENGAGE IN SEX EXCEPT TO CREATE A LIFE OPPORTUNITY!

anonymous, You’re missing my point. Sex or no sex, that woman makes a choice. If she knowingly fails to have sex she has made the same decision. She would have produced a life and has knowingly CHOSEN NOT TO PURSUE that course. Thus she has done no different than anyone who has undergone an abortion or used birth control. Where is the difference?

Does mike mean that a woman should get pregnant just because she can, and should keep in that state as much as possible? I think that’s unrealistic and probably unhealthful. As a mother of two, we owe it to our children to be their mother from the moment of conception. I would not have wanted to become pregnant at 16 and have a dozen children by the age of 50. I also believe birth control begins before conception. I have no problem with condoms, rhythm method, IUD, monthly pills (not morning after pills)
or any other preventative measure…but once the conception happens…another human life has begun.

Marcia, I agree and I disagree with you. I do believe with should make rational choices as to when we have and don’t have kids. What I’m saying is that we are making the same chioce MORALLY that the abortionist and the condom user has. It might seem over the top but is you sit and think about it, it isn’t. We can be as sanctimonous as we care to be but logic doesn’t let us off that easily. It’s all too convenient to point to conception as some magic dividing line when if fact it is not.

In an interview this weekend on “Meet the D’pressed” Tom Brokaw and Joe Biden spoke about the issue of Obama’s answer “above my pay grade” And then Brokaw asked Biden when does life begin… He said that it begins at conception… They talked about Pelosi’s misrepresentation of Church Doctrine and here’s what the church had to say about that:

In fact, the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, “Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law.” (No. 2271)

In the Middle Ages, uninformed and inadequate theories about embryology led some theologians to speculate that specifically human life capable of receiving an immortal soul may not exist until a few weeks into pregnancy. While in canon law these theories led to a distinction in penalties between very early and later abortions, the Church’s moral teaching never justified or permitted abortion at any stage of development.
Entire article at: http://www.catholicexchage.com

Love it. Even Obama says he was too flip.  LOL America is accustomed to his flips/flops.  And
lol again when HE, not a spokesman, says what he “intended…” usually, it’s “what he meant…”
or “to clarify ……”  Old hat now, B.O.
It is so sorry that the media went liberal.  Their ratings could have gone in orbit with a comedy show of him…. They could have made a sitcom to outdo all past, present and future
sitcoms with Obama. 
  Well, a scrawny oak can grow from an ACORN.
Squirrels will eat an ACORN, but then they like just about any nut, don’t they?  LOL LOL LOL
  I still remember him saying “Fatherhood begins at conception.”  So instead of abortions, maybe there should have more vasectomies.

Obama – let me help you…  Christians (that’s you) believe the soul enters at conception!  Geesh!  How hard is that!

As there is another Mike responding I’ll use Mike C. We can dance on the head of as many pins as we all care to, but when someone chooses to not create a life a decision hs been taken. That’s all I’m getting at. Whether it’s an act of commision or ommision a choice has been made. Personally I think keeping abortion safe, legal and rare is the best and most civilized path. Amazingly enough that’s close to what we have right now.

Mike (without the C)..I think you’re missing the point in that only the abortionist stops life that has already begun. Keeping conception from happening is not murder. Is spaying or neutering animals the same as aborting unborn pups or kittens?

As long as abortion is legal it will be only moderately safe and never rare. There is more at stake in the “safe” side than a sterile environment and licenced practicioner.

Obama’s seeming lack of Christian docrine or misinterpretation of same leads me to really wonder when and how he was “converted”.

ladytexan, mike without a c, and a few others:
For some reason I am getting responses to your
postings.  Don’t even know what you posted but it must have caused a stir.

  Don’t know now what showed up on MY post?  Was
it what I wrote?
  Will try to contact wnd and ask for an explanation.

Thanks for the intelligent thoughts Marcia. What I see as ‘spaying and neutering’ is that a choice is being made to prevent the bringing forth of a life. I don’t see the fact that an embryo is making additional cells and that eventually it becoming another creature represents an actual threashold where ‘life begins’. Life exists whether it’s reproducing cells or just waiting. The decision to proceed or not proceed whether by commission or ommission comprises an action on the part of the possible mother. The fact that an intelligent writers states that she has decided to have a manageable family by having only two children makes my point. We make life determining choices daily. This is but one.

Mike C,

  I believe the other messages are trying to convey to you that human life begins at conception. This is not an esotic idea – it is a fact. )

Well thanks all. I guess we can agree to disagree on this one.

Mike- Uh, you can’t disagree with when when life begins. My life, your life and everybody’s life begins at conception. That’s called science. All you have to do is accept it.