It was brought up by another poster...I just added my 2 cents...I guess the only real difference it makes is whether aborted babies go to heaven or they just cease to exist...Many apparently use THAT to justify their position on abortion...But I think most of those who claim that life begins at birth don't believe in souls and spirits anyway...
It's for this reason that I am against abortion at any time as well as abortifacient contraceptives. As Christians, we should be leading the way for our nations to recognize and respect unborn life as God is the one who "opens and closes the womb", meaning He is behind every new life that comes into the world. It is ALL sacred to Him and fits into His perfect plan.
I agree with that regardless of when a person becomes a 'living soul'...
I believe they DO go to heaven. People will rationalize and justify just about anything they need to to do what they want. What I can't understand is doctors, who take an oath to "do no harm" and who are supposed to be healers, who can work with an infertile couple to conceive a baby on the one hand and then abort a baby for the couple who decides it is "inconvenient" on the other hand. That requires a spiritual blindness that I doubt can be recovered.