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JFnK: I believe life does begin at conception.
HMBA: That's not a "belief." It's a scientific FACT.

That life exists after conception is a scientific fact. Strictly speaking, the notion of "begin" contradictions the scientific notion of the space-time continuum.

The imprecision of the vernacular sometimes leads to misconceptions.

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Technically, the sperm and ova are living cells even before they are joined. Equivocations with terms like life, begins, person, human being, etc., devolve into silliness in the hands of the Frankenstein mafia and Malthusian sophists.

At any rate, the legal prohibitions of abortion in America before 1973 were not because the country was under the control of Catholic "articles of faith." No idea what Kerry is thinking of here. He is an oddball.