Sources – Legal
Legal Source #7 – Government Documents
“HHS accomplishes its mission through programs and initiatives that cover a wide spectrum of activities, serving and protecting Americans at every stage of life, from conception.”7 7Strategic Plan FY 2018 – 2022, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, https://www.hhs.gov/about/strategic-plan/introduction/index.html.
Read MoreLegal Source #6 – Legislative Testimony
“From both the legal and medical standpoint, there is absolutely no question in my mind and I feel in the minds of most individuals who have given serious thought to this question, the exact moment of the beginning [of] personhood and of the human body is at the moment of conception.”6 6Prepared Statement of Dr.…
Read MoreLegal Source #5 – Legislative Hearing
“The Congress finds that present day scientific evidence indicates a significant likelihood that actual human life exists from conception.”5 5The Language of the Bill, The Human Life Bill: Hearings on S. 158 Before the Subcommittee on Separation of Powers of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 97th Cong., 1st Sess. (1981), p. 2.
Read MoreLegal Source #4 – Legislative Bills
“Recognizing and finding that the life of the human person commences at conception, also known as fertilization, and that the United States Supreme Court 1973 Roe and Doe decisions striking down state laws criminalizing abortion, which protected preborn children, are based on false science”4 4House Resolution No. 214, 2015, https://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?151+ful+HR214+pdf.
Read MoreLegal Source #3 – Legislative Hearing
“The Task Force concludes the following… abortion terminates the life of a unique, whole, living human being”3 3Report of The South Dakota Task Force to Study Abortion, Submitted to the Governor and Legislature of South Dakota, 2005, p. 13, https://www.dakotavoice.com/Docs/South%20Dakota%20Abortion%20Task%20Force%20Report.pdf.
Read MoreLegal Source #2 – Legislative Hearing
“Physicians, biologists, and other scientists agree that conception marks the beginning of the life of a human being–of a being that is alive and is a member of the human species. There is overwhelming agreement on this point in countless medical, biological, and scientific writings”2 2S-158, 97th Congress, 1st Session, 1981, p. 7.
Read MoreLegal Source #1 – Supreme Court Case
“[A] fetus is a living organism while within the womb, whether it is viable outside the womb… We do not understand this point to be contested”1 1Gonzales v. Carhart, 550 U.S. 124 (2007), p. 147.
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