permafrost wrote:
OK, again. the fetus does not become a human until god bestows the breath of life.
Look back, I have said the same thing about 100 times.
What do the experts say?
"The American College of Pediatricians concurs with the body of scientific evidence that human life begins at conception - fertilization….
Scientific and medical discoveries over the past three decades have only verified and solidified this age-old t***h.
At the completion of the process of fertilization, the human creature emerges as a whole, genetically distinct, individuated zygotic living human organism, a member of the species homo sapiens, needing only the proper environment in order to grow and develop.
When Human Life Begins, American College of Pediatricians, March 2004
"After fertilization has taken place a new human being has come into being.
[this] is no longer a matter of taste or opinion, it is not a metaphysical contention, it is plain experimental evidence."
Dr. Jerome LeJeune, Professor of Genetics at the University of Descartes, Paris, discoverer of the c********e pattern of Down's Syndrome, and Nobel Prize Winner,
The report, Subcommittee on Separation of Powers to Senate Judiciary Committee S-158, 97th Congress, 1st Session 1981
"An individual human life begins at conception when a sperm cell from the father fuses with an egg cell from the mother, to form a new cell, the zygote, the first embryonic stage.
The zygote grows and divides into two daughter cells, each of which grows and divides into two grand-daughter cells, and this cell growth/division process continues over and over again.
The zygote is the start of a biological continuum that automatically grows and develops, passing gradually and sequentially through the stages we call fetus, baby, child, adult, and old person and ending eventually in death.
The full genetic instructions to guide the development of the continuum, in interaction with its environment, are present in the zygote.
Every stage along the continuum is biologically human and each point along the continuum has the full human properties appropriate to that point."
Dr. William Reville, University College Cork, Ireland.
https://www.justthefacts.org/get-the-facts/when-life-begins/