Actually, no, it begins at fertilization. Everything in the pro-choice movement is based on lies, misinformation, technicalities, and excuses.
Let’s talk about the facts that those quotes are from 1970-1998, which was 44-16 years ago. Each quote only says that conception is the beginning of a new CELL That cell DOES NOT EQUAL A PERSON OR A FETUS.
So, if it was written only 16 years ago, it’s suddenly outdated? I didn’t realize science had a shelf-life. I suppose I should have gotten my definitions out of the Junior Feminist Scientific Terminology Revisited Volume 10. I seem to have lost my copy.
You also might want to brush up on the difference between a haploid cell and a diploid zygote.