I’m not arguing from a biblical standpoint, just a universal, easily undestood, common sense and scientific standpoint. Not that I have something against the Bible, but there are plenty of people such as Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and agnostics or even atheists who believe abortion is wrong, or could be convinced, and biblical passages are not enough to convince them.
I’d say life starts when you attach to the uterine wall. Only then can you get the nutrition you need.
I see your point about other religions and the effect a resort to the “Bible” would have for them and I agree with you.
As a Christian it seems that God would only invest a body with a spirit after it is viably attached to its source of nutrition - mom.
Exactly. To someone for whom the Bible has no meaning, arguing against abortion from a Biblical standpoint has no meaning. The whole debate about when life begins using the Bible as that basis, is only going to maybe settle the issue for believers. Unbelievers will remain unconvinced.
That's why I prefer to argue from the *scientific* position.
That is, DNA establishes the humanity of the fetus.
The life is determined by the signs of life that the growing fertilized egg displays such as growth, cell division, respiration, reaction to stimuli, ...
Looking at it from an evolutionary standpoint, it's bad for evolution because it destroys a pool of genetic material necessary for evolution to occur.