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When Does Human Life Begin?

Think Christianly: When Does Human Life Begin?

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

When Does Human Life Begin?

When does a human life begin? Here is what leaders in the medical community (along with a pastor and a presidential candidate) have to say...

From First Things:

Dr. Hymie Gordon (Mayo Clinic): “By all criteria of modern molecular biology, life is present from the moment of conception.”

Dr. Micheline Matthews-Roth (Harvard University Medical School): “It is scientifically correct to say that an individual human life begins at conception.”

Dr. Alfred Bongioanni (University of Pennsylvania): “I have learned from my earliest medical education that human life begins at the time of conception.”

Dr. Jerome LeJeune, “the Father of Modern Genetics” (University of Descartes, Paris): “To accept the fact that after fertilization has taken place a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion . . . it is plain experimental evidence.”

Rick Warren: At what point does a baby get human rights in your view?

Sen. Barack Obama: "Well, I think that whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade."

Sen. John McCain: "Life begins at conception."

(HT: Between Two Worlds)

For an argument for human rights (including the unborn) see Defending Life by Francis Beckwith

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