[nosofar]

"It is amazing that those who makes such claims are depending on the testimony of science, the very same science that says, people begin when they are born."



Science can take no stand on when a human becomes a 'person'. This is a philosophical and legal question. Scientists do generally agree that human life begins at conception.

[MHGinTN]

Scientists also base a good deal of testing for genetic diseases on the first axiom of embryology that an individual comes into existence at conception, else their tests would not be valid as diagnostic tools for individual human beings. As one debate brought out recently, "If you want to test a gold coin in front of you, for gold content, you don't test a silver coin in another room to determine how much gold is in the coin in question, you test the gold coin in front of you. Testing a different, silver coin, tells you nothing about the coin in question. To find out about it, you test it." There are genetic tests deemed valid that can now be done on one cell of a less than one-hundred cells embryo. The tests are valid because the individual is already alive and testable even at embryo age.