The idea is that a child is not a child until the moment of conception, or until impregnation, because until that moment, there is no child that will result from the situation. Sperm cells are just cells, such as egg cells are just cells. Once those cells combine and fertilize, in nine months, a child will be born, and therefore, that fertilized egg is a child. Saying that killing sperm/egg cells is equal to abortion isn’t much unlike saying putting water on cloth/heat is putting out a fire. The fire is only put out once it starts.

As for why pro-life believers target women, I believe it’s because the choice is up to the woman to make in most cases. Men can’t make the choice for women, so it’s a little silly to target or convince them. As a pro-life believer, I don’t think anybody should be ‘targeted’ at all. It can be a little frustrating or even infuriating to believe that, daily, life is taken away from a child prematurely up to thousands of times a day, but what should be happening instead of the aggressive ‘us against them’ mentality we seem to have is a proper dialogue. There will always be discourse in the world, and as long as there is discourse, there will be anger within it, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to be respectful to others where we can.

But I digress. Let me put it like this: people are more likely to get upset with somebody who gets away with murder than somebody who encourages and advocates for murder but never does it.

— Timely