If You Think Human Life Does Not Begin at Conception, You’re Anti-Science

If you were to believe pro-abortionists—but who would? —they have assumed the mantle of being “on the side of science.” This one-sided meme is as preposterous as it unscientific.

Whose principles are in harmony with basic biology and specifically human embryology? Ours, of course.

It’s simple. Each of us began our individual lives as human being at conception when sperm and egg united to form a new single-celled organism (the zygote) — a member of our species at the earliest stage of development.

To argue against this you have to pretend, among other things, that human life doesn’t really begin until implantation, which is a political, not a biological, conclusion.

The following is a perfect illustration of the pro-abortion insistence that time (and science and technological advances) stand still.

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When pro-abortion Law Prof. Mary Ziegler once wrote (as she did for The New York Times) that “The Abortion Wars Have Become a Fight Over Science,” she was trying to finesse the reality of fetal pain and the eminently defensible conclusion that abortion can cause “severe emotional disturbances” in some post-abortion women or increase their chances of “sterility.”

Ziegler writes, “Some insisted that fetal viability came earlier than the 24-to-28-week time frame set in Roe,” as if to suggest that believing preemies can be saved earlier and earlier in pregnancy is equivalent to believing the earth is flat.

Tellingly, the link in her 2021 story was to a 1979 Supreme Court decision! Has nothing happened in neonatal intensive care units in over 40 years, let alone since?!

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This year’s skirmish wasn’t actually unusual, however. Rather, it was revealing of a larger shift in the terms of the abortion debate. Over the past few decades, the abortion wars have become as much a fight about science and medicine as they are about the law and the Constitution.

But, of course.

We are far more capable than we were decades and decades ago of understanding the agony that a pain-capable child will experience as she is torn about. We know a hundredfold more about the unborn child’s journey to birth and the remarkable interactions between mother and child.

The science of ultrasound, once extremely primitive, is now in 4-D and in color. We can see unborn children frolicking (so much for blobs of tissue).

We know that when it comes to abortion and anything touching on it, the National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society and the American Psychological Association may be “well-established” but (contrary to Ziegler) they are anything but “non-partisan.”

A test of any scientific group’s commitment to the evidence will likely be how it handles the fact that chemical abortions can be reversed, if the second of the two drugs is not taken. However, if, as I suspect, resistance will only harden, no amount of evidence will ever convince pro-abortionists that abortion pill reversal is anything other than “junk science.”

But their resistance is equivalent to trying to make time stand still.

The truth is the “underlying science” is on our side and not our benighted opposition’s.

LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. He frequently writes Today’s News and Views — an online opinion column on pro-life issues.

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