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“[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.

“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.

“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.

“[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.

“[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.

“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…

“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.