Pro-life activists are trying to use legal tactics to undermine science again.

Anti-abortion activists in several states are promoting constitutional amendments that would define life as beginning at conception, which could effectively outlaw all abortions and some birth-control methods.

The campaigns to grant "personhood" to fertilized eggs, giving them the same legal protections as human beings, come as the nation in December marks the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade — the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.

During those three decades, abortion foes succeeded in imposing a variety of restrictions, such as waiting periods and parental notification for minors.

But some activists say they are fed up with incremental steps and are not interested in waiting years for a more conservative court to revisit Roe. Instead, they are out to change the legal status of embryos.

"The concept that we're going to elect judges who will change everything has failed," said Brian Rohrbough, past president of Colorado Right to Life. "The logical thing is to start with personhood ... It's the only legitimate tactic that does not involve a compromise."

I love babies.

The idea of anybody hurting a baby makes me so angry I can barely stand it.

But an embryo is not a baby. It is a "potential" baby. And so is the egg, or eggs, that exit a woman's uterus every month during her menstrual cycle. But this egg is not a baby either. It is simply a cell. And a fertilized egg is simply a jumble of cells. Not a baby.

The idea that all potential humans must be carried to term and birthed, is completely an invention of religion. And the reason why is extremely self-serving and not as charitable as we are led to believe. Essentially it is a concept that hearkens back to a time when Christianity was a young religion that was trying to expand its numbers through procreation and conversion. In those days, and even today, there was power in numbers. The more benefactors you had, the wealthier and more influential you would become. The more soldiers you created, the more formidable you would become. The more believers you created, the more accepted you become.

Why do you think there were all of those rules against masturbation? Because ancient priests believed that God would give men and women only a certain number of chances to make a new Christian, and they adapted their religious rules to cover their ignorance of biology.

It is not about potential babies, it is about potential parishioners.

However as modern humans have become more evolved and scientifically aware, we have come to understand that without birth control and sex education we are in danger of quickly populating this planet beyond its ability to support our needs. And as we find ourselves scrambling for the resources we need to sustain ourselves, we bump into others scrambling for those same resources. Wars are then needed to weed out the weak and to allow the strong to dominate.

And that is what we see happening today. Christians are the dominate religion, but Islam is growing rapidly (They also do not believe in birth control), and there is fear of a shift in the balance.

And they may change the definition from Christianity, to democracy, or capitalism, but don't be fooled. The goal is to force our way of life onto those who believe differently then we do, and take what they have by seduction, coercion, or force.

It is not about the babies. It is about the power.