Does Life Begin at First Breath?

The pro-life position on abortion has been fairly consistent over the years, but as we learn more about fetal development and the traumatic consequences of abortion, the pro-choice position has become increasingly extreme. You support a woman’s right to choose. That’s reasonable and understandable, so why can’t you just leave it at that? Why is it necessary to call an unborn child a clump of cells? We have ultrasounds! We know exactly what an embryo looks like. We know what a fetus looks like through all stages of development. We know scientists overwhelmingly agree that life begins at conception. You can acknowledge that life begins at conception AND believe women have the right to choose. Yes, both can exist at the same time.

But there’s a new argument I’m seeing over the last year or so among pro-choice Christians: Life begins at first breath because Genesis 2:7 says so. What does Genesis 2:7 say?

"Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.