Patrick S. Tomlinson is an author from the States.

He also has a simple question for those who claim to be pro-life. Patrick is pro-choice so Patrick believes that women should have the opportunity to choose whether or not they want to be pregnant. Patrick doesn't believe that life begins at conception... and nor does he think that pro-life people believe it either. He's taken to Twitter to share his theory - the hypothesis of which he's gathered from asking pro-life people a simple question over the years. It goes a little something like this. https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/920085535984668672 Patrick says that there are two possible answers to his question. He believes that answering one way proves that a person truly does think that life begins at conception and that answering another way does not. However, Patrick says a pro-life person has never given a straight answer to his query.

It's a simple scenario with two outcomes. No one ever wants to pick one, because the correct answer destroys their argument. And there IS a correct answer, which is why the pro-life crowd hates the question. 2/

— Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek) October 17, 2017

This is Patrick's thread. https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/920086917043097601 https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/920088083768446976 https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/920089167765426179 Patrick goes on to say that this question should be used to "call out" those who claim to believe that life begins at conception. He says that a lot of the time, people miss the point and believe that pro-choice people see embryos as without value entirely. Instead, Patrick posits that they are of course valuable and that they are alive... just not as valuable and not as alive as a living, breathing child. Or a living, breathing woman, for that matter. https://twitter.com/Rebels4Choice/status/921664902363795456 While Patrick's question does not entirely 'destroy' the pro-life argument as some people online have suggested, it does prove the flimsiness of the life-begins-at-conception argument. His thread has also been shared over 27,000 times on Twitter. So, if anything, it's at least given a lot of people something to think about.