What “Pro-lifers” would have to do at a bare minimum for their philosophy to make any sense.

very good.

Sounds good to me.

By all means. Responsibility begins as soon as possible.

Indeed. Not only that, but we need to fix our foster system or we're just moving a large part of the suffering down the line.

Preferably you expand on the ideas of those programs so they'd be useful and immune to exploitation, then start them at day one (conception).

Does that mean when children are born they're already 9 months old? Their birthdate will now be their conception date?

Ok...say it slowly..."b-i-r-t-h-d-a-y".

Start at Day One?

Biologically, nobody knows they’re pregnant on Day 1 — it’s literally impossible to know until about 1-2 weeks at the earliest, if you are peeing on a stick literally every day.

Even then, it’s recommended for women to wait until a week or two after their first missed period for the most accurate results.

That can get into 6-week territory.

Then of course some women have irregular periods and miss them for different reasons and they may not even be able to use *that* as a reliable gauge.

So even under the “life begins at conception” theory, it’s only possible to determine that in retrospect, sometimes many weeks out.

The principle on which you made the policy suggestion is that we start them on these programs ASAP. Therefore the principle guiding the policy has to make it clear they apply from conception even if we don't detect the new life until later. It'd not lead to retroactive funding or anything like that, it'd be so the letter and spirit of the law are in line as they should be.