I'm sorry, but is it really so hard to grasp that life exists along a continuum? Is it really incomprehensible that something that is not alive will not and cannot become alive?
What is this “life” you are talking about? You’re a high priestess of Science. You’ve created a psychologically convenient, but wholly irrelevant definition of “life”. If a squirrel dies in the forest, a monkey in the jungle, or a “life” in your Petri dish what difference is that to me?
When does human life begin? At what point in your “life” continuum” can I know I’m dealing with a human being?
If “life” is a continuum at what point would you be arrested for murder for killing off a human life?
Don’t you see how unscientific your answer is? If it is just a “life” continuum until death what difference does it make when you end “life”? By your definition all “life” is equivalent. That’s not very thoughtful or scientific is it?
Imagine a situation where there is only enough of a life saving solution - Solution X - to save either the “life” growing within your body or the “life” growing within my Belgian mare. How do we choose who gets Solution X?