Pro-Choice Source #53 – Testimony

“Of course human life begins at conception.” 53 53 Aileen Klass, the owner of Oregon’s largest abortion clinic, testified under oath in, Surgi-center vs. Advocates for Life Ministries, et al., 1989 (cited in Randy Alcorn Why Pro-Life? Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers (Hendrickson Publishers, 2011)).

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Pro-Life Source #29 – Testimony

“Medical textbooks and scientific reference works consistently agree that human life begins at conception . . . Among those scientists who have no vested interests in the abortion issue, there is an overwhelming consensus that human life begins at conception.” 29 29 Brewer, D., Testimony of David Brewer, MD, former Abortion Provider, Priests for Life,…

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Scientific Source #72 – Testimony

“It is an established scientific fact. Theologians and philosophers may go on to debate the meaning of life or the purpose of life, but it is an established fact that all life, including human life, begins at the moment of conception.”72 72Testimony of Dr. Hymie Gordon, M.D., The Human Life Bill: Hearings on S. 158…

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Scientific Source #75 – Testimony

“I have quizzed hundreds of doctors: ‘When do you think the actual human life begins?’ There is no other answer except: ‘At the minute of conception.’”75 75Testimony of Dr. McCarthy DeMere, J.D., M.D., The Human Life Bill: Hearings on S. 158 Before the Subcommittee on Separation of Powers of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary,…

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Scientific Source #74 – Testimony

“If we are talking, then, about the biological beginning of a human life or lives, as distinct from other human lives, the answer is most assuredly that it is at the time of conception — that is to say, the time at which a human ovum is fertilized by a human sperm”74 74Testimony of Dr.…

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Scientific Source #71 – Testimony

“Life has a very, very long history, but each individual has a very neat beginning–the moment of its conception.”71 71Testimony of Dr. Jerome LeJeune, M.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. 8.

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Scientific Source #73 – Testimony

“So, therefore, it is scientifically correct to say that an individual human life begins at conception, when egg and sperm join to form the zygote, and that this developing human always is a member of our species in all stages of its life.”73 73Testimony of Dr. Micheline Mathews-Roth, M.D., The Human Life Bill: Hearings on…

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Scientific Source #77 – Testimony

“I submit that human life is present throughout this entire sequence from conception to adulthood and that interruption at any point constitutes termination of human life.”77 77Testimony of Dr. Alfred M. Bongiovanni, M.D., The Human Life Bill: Hearings on S. 158 Before the Subcommittee on Separation of Powers of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary,…

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Scientific Source #88 – Testimony

“To accept the fact that after fertilization has taken place a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or of opinion. The human nature of the human being from conception to old age is not a metaphysical contention, it is plain experimental evidence.”88 88Testimony of Dr. Jerome LeJeune, M.D.,…

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Scientific Source #83 – Testimony

“[T]he moment that the interaction at the cell wall begins [“fertilization”] that you begin the continuous process that we know as “life,” I do not understand what people are talking about when they say they do not have evidence of that point of transmission”83 83Testimony of Dr. Mildred F. Jefferson, M.D., The Human Life Bill:…

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