Medical fact. Life begins at conception.

[RWNJ]

ABSTRACT: The predominance of human biological research confirms that human life begins at conception—fertilization. At fertilization, the human being emerges as a whole, genetically distinct, individuated zygotic living human organism, a member of the species Homo sapiens, needing only the proper environment in order to grow and develop. The difference between the individual in its adult stage and in its zygotic stage is one of form, not nature. This statement focuses on the scientific evidence of when an individual human life begins.

When Human Life Begins

 

[NYcarbineer]

So?

 

[ScienceRocks]

So I guess no one should have birth control and should be forced to have the baby.

Are you ready to make sure the baby doesn't starve? Of course aint because you're two faced idiot.

 

[irosie91]

Ova and spermatozoans----constitute HUMAN LIFE

 

[RWNJ]

That's funny. I haven't seen a single pro choicer on here yet. Think any of them will have the balls to try to refute this? I'm taking bets.

 

[irosie91]

That's funny. I haven't seen a single pro choicer on here yet. Think any of them will have the balls to try to refute this? I'm taking bets.

see post # 4 How much did I win?

 

[mamooth]

That's funny. I haven't seen a single pro choicer on here yet. Think any of them will have the balls to try to refute this? I'm taking bets.

You claim lacks common sense. Sperm and egg are alive. Hence, life existed before conception, and life continues at conception. If something that simple eludes you, I don't know if you're worth speaking to.

Oh, your source is a conservative shill group that you're trying to pass off as mainstream. No wonder they spout such easily refuted nonsense.

Now, this is where you flail about and keep trying to define yourself as correct, based wholly on subjective criteria, and then get angry when I point out your criteria are entirely subjective.

 

[gipper]

So I guess no one should have birth control and should be forced to have the baby.

Are you ready to make sure the baby doesn't starve? Of course aint because you're two faced idiot.

Preventing pregnancy is very easy...but I am afraid you might not be up to it.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

I do not know how any could have ever questioned this fact. Anyone that has ever been a parent knows it was their baby from the moment of conception


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[buttercup]

Ova and spermatozoans----constitute HUMAN LIFE

Did any of you pro aborts take basic biology? Do you not understand the difference between a part of a human, and an actual human being? An egg and a sperm by itself does not constitute a human being. Here are some quotes from medical textbooks for you:


“Fertilization is the process by which male and female haploid gametes (sperm and egg) unite to produce a genetically distinct individual.”


Signorelli et al., Kinases, phosphatases and proteases during sperm capacitation, CELL TISSUE RES. 349(3):765 (Mar. 20, 2012)


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“….it is scientifically correct to say that human life begins at conception.”


Dr. Micheline Matthews-Roth, Harvard Medical School: Quoted by Public Affairs Council

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National Institutes of Health, Medline Plus Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary (2013), http://www.merriamwebster.com/...


The government’s own definition attests to the fact that life begins at fertilization. According to the National Institutes of Health, “fertilization” is the process of union of two gametes (i.e., ovum and sperm) “whereby the somatic chromosome number is restored and the development of a new individual is initiated.”

Steven Ertelt “Undisputed Scientific Fact: Human Life Begins at Conception, or Fertilization” LifeNews.com 11/18/13


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“It is the penetration of the ovum by a sperm and the resulting mingling of nuclear material each brings to the union that constitutes the initiation of the life of a new individual.”

Clark Edward and Corliss Patten’s Human Embryology, McGraw – Hill Inc., 30


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“Landrum B. Shettles, M.D., P.h.D. was first scientist to succeed at in vitro fertilization:

“The zygote is human life….there is one fact that no one can deny; Human beings begin at conception.”

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Keith L. Moore, Before We Are Born: Essentials of Embryology, 7th edition. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, 2008. p. 2.

“[The zygote], formed by the union of an oocyte and a sperm, is the beginning of a new human being.”


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“The first cell of a new and unique human life begins existence at the moment of conception (fertilization) when one living sperm from the father joins with one living ovum from the mother. It is in this manner that human life passes from one generation to another. Given the appropriate environment and genetic composition, the single cell subsequently gives rise to trillions of specialized and integrated cells that compose the structures and functions of each individual human body. Every human being alive today and, as far as is known scientifically, every human being that ever existed, began his or her unique existence in this manner, i.e., as one cell. If this first cell or any subsequent configuration of cells perishes, the individual dies, ceasing to exist in matter as a living being. There are no known exceptions to this rule in the field of human biology.”


James Bopp, ed., Human Life and Health Care Ethics, vol. 2 (Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1985)


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Rand McNally, Atlas of the Body (New York: Rand McNally, 1980) 139, 144

“In fusing together, the male and female gametes produce a fertilized single cell, the zygote, which is the start of a new individual.”

Quoted in Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000)

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“The formation, maturation and meeting of a male and female sex cell are all preliminary to their actual union into a combined cell, or zygote, which definitely marks the beginning of a new individual. The penetration of the ovum by the spermatozoon, and the coming together and pooling of their respective nuclei, constitutes the process of fertilization.”


Leslie Brainerd Arey, “Developmental Anatomy” seventh edition space (Philadelphia: Saunders, 1974), 55

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Thibodeau, G.A., and Anthony, C.P., Structure and Function of the Body, 8th edition, St. Louis: Times Mirror/Mosby College Publishers, St. Louis, 1988. pages 409-419


“The science of the development of the individual before birth is called embryology. It is the story of miracles, describing the means by which a single microscopic cell is transformed into a complex human being. Genetically the zygote is complete. It represents a new single celled individual.”


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Carlson, Bruce M. Patten’s Foundations of Embryology. 6th edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996, p. 3

“Almost all higher animals start their lives from a single cell, the fertilized ovum (zygote)… The time of fertilization represents the starting point in the life history, or ontogeny, of the individual.”


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Lennart Nilsson A Child is Born: Completely Revised Edition (Dell Publishing Co.: New York) 1986

“but the whole story does not begin with delivery. The baby has existed for months before – at first signaling its presence only with small outer signs, later on as a somewhat foreign little being which has been growing and gradually affecting the lives of those close by…”


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Kaluger, G., and Kaluger, M., Human Development: The Span of Life, page 28-29, The C.V. Mosby Co., St. Louis, 1974

“In that fraction of a second when the chromosomes form pairs, [at conception] the sex of the new child will be determined, hereditary characteristics received from each parent will be set, and a new life will have begun.”

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Langman, Jan. Medical Embryology. 3rd edition. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1975, p. 3

“The development of a human being begins with fertilization, a process by which two highly specialized cells, the spermatozoon from the male and the oocyte from the female, unite to give rise to a new organism, the zygote.”

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The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 6th ed. (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1998), 2-18:

“[The Zygote] results from the union of an oocyte and a sperm. A zygote is the beginning of a new human being. Human development begins at fertilization, the process during which a male gamete or sperm … unites with a female gamete or oocyte … to form a single cell called a zygote. This highly specialized, totipotent cell marks the beginning of each of us as a unique individual.”

 

[Moonglow]

ABSTRACT: The predominance of human biological research confirms that human life begins at conception—fertilization. At fertilization, the human being emerges as a whole, genetically distinct, individuated zygotic living human organism, a member of the species Homo sapiens, needing only the proper environment in order to grow and develop. The difference between the individual in its adult stage and in its zygotic stage is one of form, not nature. This statement focuses on the scientific evidence of when an individual human life begins.

When Human Life Begins

It has the potential at life, it is not guaranteed it will have life...

 

[RWNJ]

That's funny. I haven't seen a single pro choicer on here yet. Think any of them will have the balls to try to refute this? I'm taking bets.

You claim lacks common sense. Sperm and egg are alive. Hence, life existed before conception, and life continues at conception. If something that simple eludes you, I don't know if you're worth speaking to.

Oh, your source is a conservative shill group that you're trying to pass off as mainstream. No wonder they spout such easily refuted nonsense.

Now, this is where you flail about and keep trying to define yourself as correct, based wholly on subjective criteria, and then get angry when I point out your criteria are entirely subjective.

YOU are the one who doesn't get it. A sperm or an egg are not alive. They do not grow. They do not change. They are nothing more than half of the DNA required for life. They are not alive until they join and begin the process of cell division. And you're an idiot if you cannot understand such a simple medically proven fact.

 

[WillowTree]

That's funny. I haven't seen a single pro choicer on here yet. Think any of them will have the balls to try to refute this? I'm taking bets.

You claim lacks common sense. Sperm and egg are alive. Hence, life existed before conception, and life continues at conception. If something that simple eludes you, I don't know if you're worth speaking to.

Oh, your source is a conservative shill group that you're trying to pass off as mainstream. No wonder they spout such easily refuted nonsense.

Now, this is where you flail about and keep trying to define yourself as correct, based wholly on subjective criteria, and then get angry when I point out your criteria are entirely subjective.

Each contain exactly half the chromosomes needed to make a human, therefore human life begins at conception.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

That's funny. I haven't seen a single pro choicer on here yet. Think any of them will have the balls to try to refute this? I'm taking bets.

You claim lacks common sense. Sperm and egg are alive. Hence, life existed before conception, and life continues at conception. If something that simple eludes you, I don't know if you're worth speaking to.

Oh, your source is a conservative shill group that you're trying to pass off as mainstream. No wonder they spout such easily refuted nonsense.

Now, this is where you flail about and keep trying to define yourself as correct, based wholly on subjective criteria, and then get angry when I point out your criteria are entirely subjective.

It kind of shows how dumb you are. There's no life coming from just a sperm or an egg. It takes both to become a life. Why are you lefties now changing from a baby in the womb isn't a human and therefore can be killed at will to the baby was a human even before the contraception and therefore should be killed? I don't get this strategy unless you're saying if you jack or jill off to pornhub you've killed a child.

 

[RWNJ]

So I guess no one should have birth control and should be forced to have the baby.

Are you ready to make sure the baby doesn't starve? Of course aint because you're two faced idiot.

Preventing pregnancy is very easy...but I am afraid you might not be up to it.

You never know. He may be shooting blanks.

 

[irosie91]

Biology was my undergraduate major-----with some specialization in genetics. I graduated with honors and
phi-beta-kappa. The individual OVUM -----is also unique and LIVING as is the Individual spermatozoan. MOST (that's MOST as in more than 50%) zygotes die on their own in utero and are shed unnoticed and unmourned Discussions of "when does 'human life' begin' are------IDIOTIC. EPITHELIAL CELLS residing on your lip ---
constitute HUMAN LIFE ---with complete and unique genetic
array and even a possible potential for cloning and the development of a UNIQUE LIVING HUMAN BEING. You shed millions of complete human living cells when you shit in into the toilet-----so NEVER FLUSH AGAIN

 

[MPS777]

ABSTRACT: The predominance of human biological research confirms that human life begins at conception—fertilization. At fertilization, the human being emerges as a whole, genetically distinct, individuated zygotic living human organism, a member of the species Homo sapiens, needing only the proper environment in order to grow and develop. The difference between the individual in its adult stage and in its zygotic stage is one of form, not nature. This statement focuses on the scientific evidence of when an individual human life begins.

When Human Life Begins

Hello RWNJ, before a debate can start, often it must be framed, to do so a common framework should be set. To do so, lets start by stating some philosophical positions:

1. Do you philosophically believe the following is a just belief?
“No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

I do, do you?


2. I don’t believe that a human zygote is entiltled to the “personhood” rights in the quoted section statement 1. Do you believe a human zygote is entitled to the “personhood” rights in the quoted section statement 1?

If you can’t answer the two questions above, you’d be dodging this post.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Biology was my undergraduate major-----with some specialization in genetics. I graduated with honors and
phi-beta-kappa. The individual OVUM -----is also unique and LIVING as is the Individual spermatozoan. MOST (that's MOST as in more than 50%) zygotes die on their own in utero and are shed unnoticed and unmourned Discussions of "when does 'human life' begin' are------IDIOTIC. EPITHELIAL CELLS residing on your lip ---
constitute HUMAN LIFE ---with complete and unique genetic
array and even a possible potential for cloning and the development of a UNIQUE LIVING HUMAN BEING. You shed millions of complete human living cells when you shit in into the toilet-----so NEVER FLUSH AGAIN

We get it. You aborted one of your own children and are trying to justify it before the crushing truth can traumatize you. You're trying to cope with your actions. You're struggling for justification and are willing to science the shit out of it in an attempt to cover for your true realization you killed your own child. You're no better than Casey Anthony. The only difference is you never had to actually hold the child you killed in your arms. The justification process has to be pretty painful.

 

[WinterBorn]

So a fertilized egg forces the female to carry it to term? Lucky for the males, huh?

And after it is born? Then the mother and child are on their own? So society gets to choose what the woman carries in her body, but refuses to help sustain it after it is born. Or assist the mother until it is born.

 

[sakinago]

Ova and spermatozoans----constitute HUMAN LIFE

Nope they constitute gametes. Have half the chromosomes. By themselves they don’t grow into something else. This is like high school level biology.