An individual human life begins when the sperm unites with the egg – fertilization. This is a biological fact, undisputed amongst scientists and obstetric doctors. The beginning of life is attested to in both modern and older embryology texts, and by expert medical doctors (
http://www.abort73.com/index.php?/abortion/medical_testimony). The question is about biology, not religion.
Dr Alfred M. Bongioanni, a professor of obstetrics has stated, “I have learned from my earliest medical eduation that human life begins at the time of conception … human life is present throughout this entire sequence from conception to adulthood … any interruption at any point throughout this time constitutes a termination of human life”. Speaking further about the early stages of the development in the womb he said “I am no more prepared to say that these early stages represent an incomplete human being than I would be to say that the child prior to the dramatic effects of puberty is not a human being. This is human life at every stage”.9
Finally, the fact that abortion kills is not lost on the many women who realise, too late, that the pregnancy that they have terminated has taken away their baby. If you are suffering grief after an abortion, you are not alone. This site has links to
post abortion support services that may help.
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9 Subcommittee on Separation of Powers to Senate Judiciary Committee S-158, Report, 97th Congress, 1st Session, 1981.
10 Aileen Klass, owner of the largest abortion clinic in Oregon in the US testified under oath: “Of course human life begins at conception”. Lovejoy Surgicenter v. Advocates for Life Ministries, et al., 1989 (United States).
