Despite that bit of rhetoric, these liberals are willing to split hairs over "life."  If a child in its mother's womb hasn't been born, then it isn't really alive.  If it isn't really alive, then it doesn't have the right to life that is the premise for their nationalized health care.  At the other end, the elderly with severe health problems are "just barely alive."  So the elderly should be given counseling and placed in medical warehouses rather than expensive procedures.  Life, then, is what they make it.