Evangelical Christians prefer the term ''unborn child'' to the term ''fetus'' when discussing [[elective abortion]], since the former supports the viewpoint that (1) "Human life begins at [[conception]]" and (2) "[[Abortion]] is [[murder]]". They feel that calling the unborn child simply a "fetus" devalues [[human life]].
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Evangelical Christians prefer the term ''unborn child'' to the term ''fetus'' when discussing [[elective abortion]], since the former supports the viewpoint that (1) "Human life begins at [[conception]]" and (2) "[[Abortion]] is [[murder]]". They feel that calling the unborn child simply a "fetus" devalues [[human life]]. Some have pointed to the incongruity of US federal law which deems that the fertilized eggs of any of over 800 species of native birds warrant federal-government protection under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 while the fertilized egg of a human being is regarded as a disposable mass of tissue.