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Actually the regular birth control pills that are prescribed by plan parenthood also stop implantation of a fertilized egg to the uterus. Always have from my understanding. So a constitutional amendment banning abortion and stating life begins at conception would also make oral contraceptives illegal. Which is what the ultra-conservative catholics want. I have spoke to some ultra-conservative catholics and some believe that we need to go back to the days of the "Comstock laws". NO THANKS.

As far as the slippery slope you mentioned I have worked it out like this. The 14th amendment says that all person's born or naturalized are citizens of the USA and the states wherein they reside. So as far as I am concerned you have a fully legal citizen (a woman) and a non-legal entity (the fetus). As soon as it is born it is a citizen entitled to all the rights as any other citizen. Until then it is up to the woman (and her conscience) to decide what to do.

Umm, can a California housewife murder her illegal alien gardener whenever she likes? The citizen/noncitizen argument doesn't work. The real moral outrage is that we accord dogs more rights than the human fetus.

So as far as I am concerned you have a fully legal citizen (a woman) and a non-legal entity (the fetus). As soon as it is born it is a citizen entitled to all the rights as any other citizen. Until then it is up to the woman (and her conscience) to decide what to do.

That's the part I'm not as sure about. It seems somewhat arbitrary. I mean, why pick birth as that point of entitlement to legal protection? It seems more sound to err on the side of life and pick conception. Granted, either way it's arbitrary, but I would rather err on the side of life.