The Facts of When Human Life Begins--Interview With Dr. Maureen Condic (Excellent Reference)

zenit.org The World Seen From Rome ^ | NOV. 7, 2008 | Karna Swanson

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Don’t the sperm and egg cells, before fertilization, have life too?

[cpforlife.org]

Excellent Reference. It further solidifies the long proven scientific fact that life begins at conception.

Conclusion: Abortion is murder and “Choice” is a mountain of lies.

[wombtotomb]

They are potential life, which is why spilling seed was considered sin as well

[cpforlife.org]

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[MyTwoCopperCoins]

“Potential” life is muddying the meaning. The cells are individually alive, as well. We can have live sperms, and we can have dead sperms. So too, with eggs.

[cpforlife.org]

Special PING M.

I think you’ll find the White paper at the link very good.

[cpforlife.org]

Clearly you did not bother to read the entire article and the lengthy white paper linked AND be able to respond in the 90~ seconds it took you to post.

READ AND COMPREHEND.

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

NOV. 7, 2008.

That’s when the article came out.

You don’t believe FR to be the only source, do you?

Besides, I didn’t find my query addressed in the article. Perhaps you would like to point it out to me?

[MainFrame65]

Sperm and egg cells are “alive” in only a very limited sense. Neither can survive for any length of time in their natural environment, and neither can perform most of the normal functions of other human cells. They cannot receive nutrients or excrete waste, and they cannot perform cell division, which is the critical characteristic of life.

But once made whole by merging their two complementary parts, they follow an innate, complex program that, if they survive this first, most perilous journey to their natural but temporary home, connected intimately to their nurturing mother for the months needed to prepare them for the world we live in.

Neither sperm nor egg, by itself, could ever become what the two of them together will be, or do by itself what they are fully prepared to do together.

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

They cannot receive nutrients or excrete waste, and they cannot perform cell division, which is the critical characteristic of life.

Actually, they can. Fructose is a component of semen. Eggs have a yolk sac.

Limited or not, egg and sperm have life.

[Salvation]

Bump for life!

[SMCC1]

A sperm is not a stage of human life, neither is an egg.
I was never just a sperm, nor was I ever just an egg.
I was however once zygote.

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Were the sperm and egg from which you derive your entire genetics, living or non-living?

[SMCC1]

It doesn’t matter how you qualify them, we’re talking specifically about human life.

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Yes, and I’m talking about a human egg and a human sperm, which specifically leads to a zygote and becomes a human. None of the stages starting with the egg and the sperm, were non-living.

[MHGinTN]

Perhaps your 'confusion' is centered around the very astonishing difference between an ORGANISM and mere subunits of an organ (the gamete producing organs called sex organs) which are subunits of an organism. When the chromosomes of the ovum and the chromosomes of the spermatazoon combine to form the normal complement of human chromosomes for a human organism, the subunits have become an organism, a human organism, a human at earliest age in the lifetime begun at conception.

BTW, thanks for the ping, Kevin.

[Question_Assumptions]

Asking when life begins is the wrong question because the material involved is never “dead” (dead things don’t spring magically to life). The question is when a new individual begins.

[Skooz]

bump bump bump

a thousand times bump

[SMCC1]

Yeah, so what.