Life

Does life begin at conception?
I can’t say certainly it doesn’t.

“The life is in the blood,” says Leviticus,
Which would mean life begins
Eighteen days or so after conception.
Personally, I like this line of thought.

I have heard the argument that the unborn
Isn’t a person until survival is possible
Apart from the mother,
The cancerous growth argument.
Can there really be two people, if one cannot exist
On its own? Cut away the cancer, the growth,
Without question or concern.
If we are all simply a mass of cells, this makes sense.

Without agreement on the nature of life itself,
How can we have agreement on how to love
The mother and, perhaps, the unborn?
And how can we even approach this, gently?

Give us wisdom, God. We need it.