When does life begin?

Over the years our nation has been divided on any number of contentious issues, but as the confirmation hearings for Judge Kavanaugh continue, it becomes evident that abortion is the single most divisive issue in our nation today.
How ironic then that the Declaration of Independence, which is affirmed by the United States Constitution, acknowledges as our first right, the right to life.
So in order for us as a nation to finally bring this heated debate to an appropriate constitutional conclusion, we must first decide what these documents mean by the word “life” and when does that life truly begin.
I recognize, of course, each of us has a different standard for when we believe life begins.
Supporters of abortion believe this embryo to be nothing more than a “blob of tissue,” and they are accurate in that assessment.
But to be fair, that’s all you and I are, “blobs of tissue.”
Who, then, is going to decide when that “blob” becomes a “life?”
I suggest conception as the most charitable and civilized response, because no human being, with all of our flaws and biases, could ever make such a supernatural decision.
As this debate continues, we should not continue to confuse women’s health care with abortion. In fact the two are antithetical to each other.
The former promotes life, while the latter irrefutably destroys it.
Tom Lapolla
Monroe