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The only question is whether we're dealing with a human life, as opposed to something that would become human life at some point, if allowed to develop normally. While there is certainly room for debate as to when this happens, if you are actually contending that a just fertilized egg, a 3 day blastocyst, or a 2 week embryo, is a human life, then we clearly occupy 2 parallel realities, one that is based on actual reality, the other on a wished-for reality.
Do you also believe that dinosaurs and men walked together 4000 years ago, just 1800 years after some invisible bearded dude up in the sky wove the universe out of nothingness?
We are all allowed to believe in our own realities. We are not allowed to impose them on others, except as consistent with hard evidence, solid logic, and in this case the will of the law.
You have none of these on your side, only personal belief based solely on faith.
This is the 21st century, not the 11th. Time to catch up.
