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all ethical arguments against early abortions boil down to semantics. when people say "life begins at conception" they're exploiting the connotation of the word "life" to make it seem like biologists are saying "a fertilized egg is a person deserving of rights". what biologists are really saying is "a fertilized egg happens to be meet the criteria for what we consider a life form". the only reason life begins at conception is because we decided that it does. ethics are based on phenomenon in the natural world and the natural world is not affected by our subjective classifications describing it. 
i believe a sensible point at which a clump of cells becomes a person is when sentience emerges. you don't even have to contradict the Bible to believe this as there is no line in it which states that a soul is created when two gametes merge.