Roman Catholic

From the moment of conception; God says that He knew us from the time we were in our mother's womb. Since the cells divide and the creation is taking place almost immediately after the sperm enters the egg, there is a new life, a new human being of extraordinary value. The Church of England The Church says that human life begins when the woman's egg is fertilised by a male sperm. From that moment a unique life begins, independent of the life of the mother and father. The features that distinguish us from our parents - the colour of our eyes, the shape of our face - are all laid down in the genetic code that comes into existence then. Each new life that begins at this point is not a potential human being but a human being with potential. Hinduism Insisting that human life begins at conception, the anti-abortion movement seeks to shock us into the awareness that abortion means killing--killing a human being rather than an animal, a bird, an insect, or a fish. Thus although the movement calls itself "prolife," it is really pro-human-life. Its fudging with the terms life and human life reveals a disturbing assumption: that nonhuman life is somehow not actually life at all, or, if it is, then it is somehow not as "sacred" as human life and therefore not worth protecting....If the prolife movement can become part of a broader struggle to recognize the sacredness of all life...then undoubtedly it will gain great success. At present, people generally unite only for sensual pleasure, and children are often considered a regrettable accident....Abortion being accepted as standard practice, people conveniently forget that life begins at conception, by using such euphemisms as "tissue" when referring to the fetus. Although subconsciously they know that they are killing the baby in the womb, they prefer to say they are "terminating the pregnancy," or "removing the tissue" so they may feel free of the guilt for murder, thus deluding themselves psychologically...they cannot escape the punishment for murder given by the laws of karma, and ...in their next lives they will have to suffer the misery of repeatedly being aborted.