Posts by Steve Jacobs

“[I]mproved medical techniques, and other advances anchor the movement’s arguments in scientific fact. ‘The pro-life message has been, for the last 40-something years, that the fetus … is a life, and it is a human life’”11 11Green, E., Science Is Giving the Pro-Life Movement a Boost, The Atlantic, Jan. 18, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/pro-life-pro-science/549308.

“The life of a human being begins at conception—not at implantation, “viability,” or birth. This is a scientific fact.”10 10Lee, P., Tollefsen, C.O., & George, R.P., Marco Rubio Is Right: The Life of a New Human Being Begins at Conception, Public Discourse, Aug. 18, 2015, https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/08/15520.

“Carnegie Stage 1 represents FERTILIZATION and [describes] the unicellular embryo that contains genetic material and is a single-cell HUMAN BEING that develops into all of the subsequent stages of a human being.”9 9The Carnegie Stages of Human Embryonic Development, Contend Projects, https://contendprojects.org/the-science/carnegie-stages.

“[T]he biological and medical truths which prove the prenatal entity is in fact… a distinct human being [that is] biologically alive from conception”8 8Smith, D., Pro-Choice Concedes: Prominent Abortion Proponents Concede The Barbarity Of Abortion, Human Defense Initiative, 2018, https://humandefense.com/prochoice-concedes.

“A new human organism begins to exist when the process of fertilization is successfully completed”7 7Life Begins at Fertilization – Peer Reviewed Scientific Sources, The Fetal Position, 2019, https://thefetalposition.com/conception.

“[A] new human embryo, the starting point for a human life, comes into existence with the formation of the one-celled zygote”6 6Life Begins at Fertilization, Princeton University, https://www.princeton.edu/~prolife/articles/embryoquotes2.html.

“I found that 5,337 biologists (96%) affirmed that a human’s life begins at fertilization”5 5Jacobs, S., I Asked Thousands of Biologists When Life Begins. The Answer Wasn’t Popular, Quillette, 2019, https://quillette.com/2019/10/16/i-asked-thousands-of-biologists-when-life-begins-the-answer-wasnt-popular.

“[T]he immediate product of sexual human reproduction is a new living genetically unique single-cell human organism, human being, human embryo, human zygote, human individual”4 4Irving, D.N., What Human Embryo?: Funniest Mental Gymnastics from Medicine and Research, Catholic Culture, https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=6373.

“The results of Jacobs’ global survey of academic biologists was astonishing in its consensus: ‘Overall, 95% of all biologists affirmed the biological view that a human’s life begins at fertilization (5212 out of 5502)’”3 3Hammer, J., HAMMER: A World-Renowned University Suppressed Important Abortion Research. Here’s The Full Story, Daily Wire, 2019, https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-world-renowned-university-suppressed-josh-hammer.