[Hank Kerchief]

If I asked you, "Is a sperm cell a LIVING cell?", the only possible answer is yes. If I asked you, "Is an egg cell (ovum) a LIVING cell?", the only possible answer is yes. Therefor, a zygote is also a LIVING cell. If you abort a fertilized ovum you are there for killing a living cell or cells. Abortion is clearly the purposeful murder of a LIVING orgamism which in it's early stages derives it's nourishment from the mother's body.

Choice my ASS! It's murder!

Therefore, if I may quote you, "if I asked you, 'Is a sperm cell a LIVING cell?', the only possible answer is yes..." so, contraception "..is clearly the purposeful murder of a LIVING organism."

I think your argument is problematic.

Hank

[Sloth]

"if I asked you, 'Is a sperm cell a LIVING cell?', the only possible answer is yes..."

I would argue that a sperm & an ovum do *not* meet the biological criteria for life (e.g., they don't grow or reproduce), but that they in a sense "carry" life. But even if we say they are alive, they do not have a complete genetic code, and are consequently not separate organisms.

A zygote, on the other hand, is a complete human organism.