[XBob]

310 - "A fertilized egg is a human being. You don't need religion to believe this, you don't even need science. All you need to do is look at the development of a human from conception through birth and ask yourself if there is any point along that continuum where the fetus isn't human."

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Why pick this particular point in the 'continuum' of life? The sperm and the egg are alive. And they contain the cytoplasm and other components from their 'creators', male and female, which contains components from their parents, etc, etc.

Life didn't begin with the union of sperm and egg, it began long before that.

At this point we can't 'create' 'life', we can however, re-organize existing life into a different form by uniting a sprerm and egg.

So when does this 'life' begin?

[palmer]

So when does this 'life' begin?

Before conception. But human life begins at conception.

[hocndoc]

The individual organism's life does begin at fertilization, and the oocyte and sperm cease to exist.