The human embryo requires protection....

A human skin cell has the full complements of human DNA in its nucleus, but it will always remain a skin cell. An embryo has both genetic direction and the self organization to mature. It is therefore a human being. In the proper environment, it will develop into an adult human being. A life of a new human being has begun, and demands unconditional protection, from fertilization to the moment of death.
Without a view of God, or at the very least, a transcendent natural order, there is no intrinsic significant life.
Skilled rhetoric cannot defeat the proponents of abortion and the culture of death,precisely for this reason......