Additional Source #21 – Book

“A baby begins life as a single cell, smaller than the period at the end of this sentence, and would be only barely visible to the naked eye. This cell is created by the union of two parent cells: the female egg cell or ovum, and the male sperm cell.”21 21Sumner, W. Abortion and Moral…

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Additional Source #20 – Book

“A human fetus is not a nonhuman animal; it is a stage of human being.”20 20Sumner, W. Abortion and Moral Theory, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981, p. 10.

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Additional Source #19 – Book

“FERTILIZATION: What new process is begun at conception? It is life itself. It is a process involving manifold processes: the manifold acts and reactions of a new human life.”19 19Connolly, W. M., One Life: How the U.S. Supreme Court Deliberately Distorted the History, Science and Law of Abortion, Xlibris, 2002, p. 227.

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Additional Source #18 – Book

“[An] embryo [is t]he early developing fertilized egg that is growing into another individual of the species. In man the term “embryo” is usually restricted to the period of development from fertilization until the end of the eighth week of pregnancy”18 18Walters, W. & Singer, P. [Eds.], Test-Tube Babies, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1982, p.…

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Additional Source #17 – Peer-Reviewed Article

“Abortion does end a human life, so it should not be done without grave consideration for what is at stake, as we do with capital punishment and war.”17 17Shermer, M., Abortion Is a Problem to Be Solved, Not a Moral Issue, Scientific American, Sep. 1, 2018, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/abortion-is-a-problem-to-be-solved-not-a-moral-issue.

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Additional Source #16 – Book

“When one of the father’s sperm cells, like the ones gathered here around the egg, succeeds in penetrating the egg and becomes united with it, a new life can begin.”16 16Flanagan, G.L., Beginning Life, New York: DK Publishing, 1996, p. 13.

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Additional Source #15 – Peer-Reviewed Article

“[Pre-Roe] laws reflected an ethical consensus, not based solely on religious tradition, but also on scientific evidence that human life begins at conception”15 15Meehan, M., Abortion and the “Consistency Thing”, The Human Life Review, Winter 1981, p. 60.

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Additional Source #14 – Article

“Life begins at conception. Because of that, every life must be valued.”14 14Daines forms first ‘pro-life caucus’ in U.S. Senate, KRTV, Jan. 19, 2019, https://www.krtv.com/news/montana-politics/2019/01/19/daines-forms-first-pro-life-caucus-in-u-s-senate.

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Additional Source #13 – Article

“The majority of our group could find no point in time between the union of sperm and egg, or at least the blastocyst stage, and the birth of the infant at which point we could say that this was not a human life.”13 13The Conclusion from The First International Conference on Abortion (Oct. 1967), cited…

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Additional Source #12 – Article

“[S]cience is clear. That when there is conception that that is a human life in the early stages of its total development”12 12Scott, E., Marco Rubio defends abortion stance: Human life begins at conception, CNN, Aug. 7, 2015, https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/07/politics/marco-rubio-abortion-republican-debate-gop/index.html.

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