No, it's not - it's about what a woman is allowed to do with her own body, and some women don't want to be relegated to the status being of an incubator, as if they were characters in "The Handmaid's Tale".
Life does not begin at conception.
Conception is the point at which a sperm successfully fertilizes an egg; anywhere from 25% to 50% of all fertilized eggs never attach and begin to develop into a fetus, so how can they have been alive? A fetus cannot even exist outside the womb until about 22 or 23 weeks into the pregnancy, so how can it be considered to be alive before then?
Do you want to stop a woman from aborting at 16 weeks? Fine, just deliver the "baby" by Cesarean and see what happens. It would essentially be the same thing as an abortion, except that now the onus would be on those who insisted it was already "alive" to explain why it couldn't survive on its own... which brings us back to the idea of woman as an incubator.
"My body, my choice" is just as valid for pregnancy as it is for getting a vaccination - the government CANNOT tell you what to do with your body. That's not to say there may not be consequences for your choice - a decision not to vaccinate may result in an employer deciding not to hire you or let you back into the building, for instance - but the choice is still yours to make.
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