Scientific Source #81 – Testimony
“If the question is whether an individual human life in the sense of a new generation is beginning, I think the consensus answer on that would be that genetically, yes, it [begins] at fertilization because new genetic information is put together in fertilization”81
81Testimony of Dr. Clifford Grobstein, Ph.D., 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. 84.