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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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“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…
Read MoreAdditional Source #8 – Article
“[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.
Read MoreAdditional Source #9 – Article
“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.
Read MoreAdditional Source #10 – Article
“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.
Read MoreAdditional Source #11 – Article
“[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.
Read MoreAdditional 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.
Read MoreAdditional 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…
Read MoreAdditional 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.
Read MoreAdditional 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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