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To answer your question seriously: life doesn't "begin" in the first place, it's an unbroken circle. The sperm and ova that made you are also alive, but no one believes they should be kept alive at the exclusion of people's health and bodily freedom.
Indeed @GodLovesUSA1, there is no other context besides abortion in which we are debating whether other beings' right to live outweigh your own freedom. We don't, for instance, force you to donate blood or kidneys to save a dying person. How would that be any different?
It is a contradiction to say that the right to life is greater than the right to your own body. Otherwise, that would imply we can all use each other, and involuntarily jeopardize each other's health and safety in the process, for the sake of our own existence.
Which is of course why no one calling themselves "pro-life" takes that idea to its logical conclusion. They only believe in a "right to life" insofar as that right restricts women's sexuality, and ability to compete with men generally. Outside that context, the concept is void.
