The government HAS to act as a meeting ground for differing views, to determine what the SOCIETY as a whole ( rather than any one religious group or political viewpoint) will consider as the correct point to consider them human.

I've got a perfect solution. Have the government legislate to give all men vasectomies to prevent unwanted pregnancies. We can store up semen ahead of time, so the human race need not die out and there will be no need for abortions,so the government can stay out of women's lives.