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even morning-after birth control for cases of rape and incest. Which should not be available according to some.

That is a primarily a Catholic question. It's not clear how it shakes out to the general public and to the law.

Normally, I consider a pregnancy to begin when you have a fertilized egg that has attached itself to the mother's womb. Catholics might not agree. But we do not, after all, hold funerals for fertilized eggs that simply failed to attach and create a human being, being flushed in menses. I also don't consider a tubal pregnancy to be a human life. That will end only in the death of mother and the doomed child.

I oppose embryonic research as well. But I have some mixed feelings about it, given my personal standard for what comprises a pregnancy. I am more against it out of fear of what it will become rather than what it currently is. The fact that embryonic research has only succeeded in treatments that give the patient brain cancer makes my position easier.