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The abortion debate has defined American politics for generations, but public discussion usually reduces it to the assumption that Republicans reject abortion and Democrats defend it. That oversimplification hides the core issue. Every claim—whether moral, legal, philosophical, or scientific—ultimately depends on one factual question that both sides consider decisive: when human life begins.

No reasonable person believes that intentionally killing an innocent human being is morally acceptable. The disagreement lies in whether the unborn child qualifies as a human life at the moment an abortion takes place. That single distinction determines whether abortion is a medical procedure or the deliberate ending of a human being’s life. Because of that, debates about rape, incest, financial hardship, or personal autonomy never resolve the core issue.