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 Science very clearly states that the human life cycle starts at conception. We are all living humans from the moment of conception.

Roe v. Wade was never about when a baby becomes a living human because nobody could agree on that. Roe v. Wade recognized that science says and we are all living humans from conception.

Roe v. Wade was about personhood, just like the slavery argument. Roe v. Wade decided said that a baby did not have legal personhood protections until the moment of the birth because the Constitution says citizenship isn't granted by birth or naturalization.

I pointed this out once and the person had the nerve to say, where did you get that info from? So I started pulling out excerpt from Roe v. Wade and quoting it ... and got crickets from them after that. 😂