According to traditional Christian views, beginning at conception, the embryo has moral status as a human being, and thus most assisted reproductive technologies are forbidden.
You know this, I know this.
Those living in sin are clueless.
While I agree with you in principle, I often ask what happens when a zygote (a fertilized ovum) is flushed from a woman's body (without her even knowing) before it matures into an embryo and attaches to the woman's womb? Is that death? Is that abortion? Is that murder?
It's a thought exercise: When we say "beginning at conception," should that literally mean when the ovum and sperm meet in the fallopian tube or should it mean that "life begins at implantation" after it travels to the uterus where the baby actually starts nurturing through the mother? This process could take up to a week to complete.
-PJ
It seems to me a fertilized egg has a factual status as a human being, not just moral.