[UpAllNight]

You stated:

"thus I would assume our souls are present at the time of conception...."

and provide several biblical phrases to support. Now, those phrases support that life begins in the womb. Do you support that life begins in the womb or prior to the womb?

[metmom]

A fertilized human egg that is dividing and growing is alive. Deliberately stopping that process is killing it, and when it involves a human being it's called *murder*.

Questioning when life begins about something that is clearly alive makes you look like a moron.

[PigRigger]

Now, those phrases support that life begins in the womb. Do you support that life begins in the womb or prior to the womb?

No, once again I state I believe it begins at conception.

The bible was directed at people who could never conceive of invitro....as we would with future technological advances...

Once conception occurs, the path to human form begins....the viability of that life is the only issue in question at that point...either it will progress to a viable human form that can exist outside the womb or be terminated naturally or …..by the hand of man...

The simple fact is, at the point of conception the spark of life is ignited....whether that be in or outside the womb...abortion is the intentional termination of that developing life force into human form.