Check your gametes. Her statement seems pretty unimpeachable to me. The male substance isn't life, any more than a bolt is a car. It needs to be combined with other elements before it's a car.
I guess you could quibble and say that life begins in the Fallopian tube; but to continue the auto analogy, that's really just an on-ramp to the womb.
Don’t sell your self short Laddie, sell yourself long.
And but a blue ribbon on him.