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Scientist: Human Life Begins at Conception, Fertilization
Life News ^ | 11/18/11 | Gerard Nadal, Ph.D.

Posted on 11/18/2011 4:16:38 PM PST by wagglebee

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To: wagglebee

My husband used to say, “A fertilized egg is either a tomato or a person - which is it?” Only one answer.


21 posted on 11/18/2011 4:45:27 PM PST by Marcella (Newt will smash Obama in debates. Newt needs money.)
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To: wagglebee

Thank you for posting this!!


22 posted on 11/18/2011 4:46:26 PM PST by dragonblustar (Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
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To: wagglebee

That’s easy enough for you to say but I’m becoming more and more convinced that Democrats are not human.


23 posted on 11/18/2011 5:12:08 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: wagglebee

Many are in denial of this basic science


24 posted on 11/18/2011 5:17:22 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: turfmann

Only God can “breathe” a soul into a body, therefore I contend that there is no such thing as an “unwanted pregnancy”, no matter what the circumstances, for man cannot coax or force God to do that which He is unwilling to do. Only He decides when a womb is fertile and when it is barren.

From the movie “Come What May”
http://www.youtube.com/v/RndNVjZnQ6g&hl=en&fs=1


25 posted on 11/18/2011 5:40:44 PM PST by uptoolate (For the record: I have complete assurance that nothing can pluck me from His hand)
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To: wagglebee

Straightforward explanation. It will get us nowhere. People can go through extraordinary mental contortions to justify their positions - no matter how egregious.

But I’ll throw in a Pro-Life ping anyway!


26 posted on 11/18/2011 5:56:58 PM PST by Brownie63
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“That “nonviable tissue mass” crap is something the people hating/abortion loving commie ‘RATS came up with.”

For years now, we’ve been beyond the debate about whether or not it is a human life. They openly concede it is, and still adamantly support the right to destroy it.

Bald eagle eggs have more protection than a human egg; destroying them is a crime.


27 posted on 11/18/2011 6:03:10 PM PST by kearnyirish2
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To: kearnyirish2
Bald eagle eggs have more protection than a human egg; destroying them is a crime.

Great point and right on the money.

28 posted on 11/18/2011 6:06:52 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Stop BIG Government Greed Now!!!!)
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To: uptoolate

Great movie. We own that one. Will never win an Oscar or Emmy or whatever but the message is wonderful!


29 posted on 11/18/2011 6:15:06 PM PST by christianhomeschoolmommaof3
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Thanks; it is just one of the bizarre contradictions of the “abortion debate”.

I had a “professor” in the early 1990s that supported abortion, and used an example of waking up with another person lying on a gurney next to you, connected to you with tubes, etc. for life support (their organs weren’t functioning). She then tried to make the case that nobody should be forced to endure that, completely removing any personal responsibility from the issue and absolutely conceding that it involved a human life. She was basically making the argument of the Nazis in their destruction of retarded people, and in pursuit of the same goal: a master (white) race. The Axis lost WWII; the Nazis won.


30 posted on 11/18/2011 6:19:30 PM PST by kearnyirish2
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To: kearnyirish2

Wow! She sounds like a real loon. She’s lucky that her mother didn’t mind having her tubes connected to the nutty professor.


31 posted on 11/18/2011 6:22:46 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Stop BIG Government Greed Now!!!!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

She was a loon; I mention her name any time the school calls for fundraising. Even back then, the only support I had when I initially engaged in raising a contrary viewpoint was from Hindus and Muslims in the class.

It must really depress that wench that the numbers of both of those groups have increased substantially in NJ since then.


32 posted on 11/18/2011 6:28:54 PM PST by kearnyirish2
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33 posted on 11/18/2011 6:35:48 PM PST by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: wagglebee; All

The full DNA structure occurs when the cells meet. Without this moment in time no case on DNA could stand, thus life begins at that moment (conception), God the spark of life when the first cell forms.


34 posted on 11/18/2011 7:22:42 PM PST by jafojeffsurf (Return to the Constitution)
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To: wagglebee

I’m entitled to reach my own conclusion about when a life begins and I conclude that a single fertilized cell is alive only in the sense that it is able add more cells to itself. Much beyond a few cells, though (I can’t say exactly where) it becomes an itty bitty human being whose killing is a sin.

A sin, yes, but should these killings be unlawful? I’m inclined to say yes because sanctioned abortion (not to mention subsidized abortion) is probably not good for the moral health of the society.


35 posted on 11/18/2011 7:37:22 PM PST by frposty (I'm a simpleton)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Anyone who has ever taken 8th grade biology already knew this.

Then former Justice of the Supreme Court Harry Blackmun and others obviously were unqualified for their positions, having flunked 8th grade biology...

the infowarrior

36 posted on 11/18/2011 10:43:01 PM PST by infowarrior
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To: PieterCasparzen
The zygote cell is therefore not of the mother’s body, as every cell of her body has her own DNA and the zygote’s DNA is that of the child.

Likewise known, and blatantly ignored by the "court" that decided Roe v Wade. That decision rates right 'up there' with Dred Scott, and for many of the same reasons. It flies in the face of basic humanity, science, and religion, it likewise legitimizes something which any fully rational person could only describe as evil to its core...

the infowarrior

37 posted on 11/18/2011 10:48:54 PM PST by infowarrior
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To: frposty
I’m entitled to reach my own conclusion about when a life begins and I conclude that a single fertilized cell is alive only in the sense that it is able add more cells to itself.

What other definition of biological life is there than metabolic functioning? You are entitled to your own opinion but you are not entitled to your own facts.

38 posted on 11/19/2011 1:06:33 AM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: wagglebee
Someone once noted that every teenage boy who has ever bought condoms knows when life begins.

I had not thought of that, but you are absolutely right. Thanks.

39 posted on 11/19/2011 5:42:09 AM PST by JakeS (I have never had a flu shot and I have never had the flu.)
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To: TigersEye

“You are entitled to your own opinion but you are not entitled to your own facts”

There are no concrete facts upon which to base a conclusion about the start of life.

Upon further thought, I believe that the act of conception is sacred. Were one of my children to get pregnant I would not advise an abortion unless it was apparent that it would avert a larger disaster.


40 posted on 11/19/2011 10:12:13 AM PST by frposty (I'm a simpleton)
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