Pro-Choice Source #43 – Article

“There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists within the womb from the very onset of pregnancy…” 43 43 Nathanson, B., Deeper into Abortion, New England Journal of Medicine, 1974, Vol.. 291, No. 22, p. 1189-1190.

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Scientific Source #148 – Article

“[A] new composite individual is started at the moment of fertilization.” 148 148 Dr. Landrum B. Shettles, M.D., The Presbyterian Hospital New York, https://www.nytimes.com/1973/02/14/archives/letters-to-the-editor-pregnancy-abortion-and-the-supreme-court.html.

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Scientific Source #143 – Article

“The task force finds that the new recombinant DNA technologies indisputably prove that the unborn child is a whole human being from the moment of fertilization.” 143 143 “When does life begin?” New Scientist 3/18/2006, Vol. 189, Issue 2543.

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Scientific Source #138 – Article

“The birth of a human life really occurs at the moment the mother’s egg cell is fertilized by one of the father’s sperm.” 138 138 LIFE Magazine, Apr 30, 1965, 57, https://books.google.com/books?id=UVMEAAAAMBAJ&pg= PA54&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false.

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Scientific Source #135 – Article

“A new individual is created when the elements of a potent sperm merge with those of a fertile ovum, or egg.” 135 135 https://www.britannica.com/science/pregnancy.

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Scientific Source #127 – Article

“The two cells gradually and gracefully become one. This is the moment of conception, when an individual’s unique set of DNA is created, a human signature that never existed before and will never be repeated.” 127 127 In the Womb, National Geographic, 2005.

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Scientific Source #109 – Article

“In sexual reproduction, sex cells (gametes) from two parents combine in the process of fertilization, leading to the formation of a new, genetically distinct individual.” 109 109 https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/cellular-molecular-biology/meiosis/a/sexual-life-cycles.

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Additional 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.

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Additional 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…

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Additional 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.

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