I believe life probably begins at conception, or very, very, very soon after-as in, usually by the time your pregnancy test would show positive. This is based on the magnesium explosion when the sperm hits the egg suggesting that's when it's forming a unique, individual human's DNA. I'm not sure if it's "life" yet, maybe it is in a few minutes, hours, or days, but I'd say the fetus is a live human early enough that any willful abortion is killing, different than fapping or cutting your nails.
Even as someone ultimately pro-choice I can accept this science. I think a mother has the right to essentially defend herself from an unwanted use of her body and resources, and from the chemical "assault" the fetus unleashes on her body during pregnancy. The only way to do this is to kill it, but it is still killing. It's also killing when it's a dangerous pregnancy, attaching to the filopian tubes or such and needs to happen for the life of the mother. It's all right to be sad and to weigh whether you're willing to kill or not, whether you feel responsible the situation having come to needing to kill. (If you were raped, hopefully you feel less responsible--though some still can't kill and carry a rapist's child to term. This is why it's CHOICE. If you were careless, well, leaving your door unlocked doesn't make it okay to rob you, but it's not wrong to feel bad about it.)
That said, I don't believe what I've read supports that COVID is such a pandemic as to require masks of the populace to contain it, nor that it would necessarily do so.
I believe life probably begins at conception, or very, very, very soon after-as in, usually by the time your pregnancy test would show positive. This is based on the magnesium explosion when the sperm hits the egg suggesting that's when it's forming a unique, individual human's DNA. I'm not sure if it's "life" yet, maybe it is in a few minutes, hours, or days, but I'd say the fetus is a live human early enough that any willful abortion is killing, different than fapping or cutting your nails.
Even as someone ultimately pro-choice I can accept this science. I think a mother has the right to essentially defend herself from an unwanted use of her body and resources, and from the chemical "assault" the fetus unleashes on her body during pregnancy. The only way to do this is to kill it, but it is still killing. It's also killing when it's a dangerous pregnancy, attaching to the filopian tubes or such and needs to happen for the life of the mother. It's all right to be sad and to weigh whether you're willing to kill or not, whether you feel responsible the situation having come to needing to kill. (If you were raped, hopefully you feel less responsible--though some still can't kill and carry a rapist's child to term. This is why it's CHOICE. If you were careless, well, leaving your door unlocked doesn't make it okay to rob you, but it's not wrong to feel bad about it.)
That said, I don't believe what I've read supports that COVID is such a pandemic as to require masks of the populace to contain it, nor that it would necessarily do so.