They said it.
T.W. Sadler, Langman’s Medical Embryology, 10th edition. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006. p. 11.
Share on Facebook“Development begins with fertilization, the process by which the male gamete, the sperm, and the femal gamete, the oocyte, unite to give rise to a zygote.”
Keith L. Moore, Before We Are Born: Essentials of Embryology, 7th edition. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, 2008. p. 2.
Share on Facebook“[The zygote], formed by the union of an oocyte and a sperm, is the beginning of a new human being.”
Ronan O’Rahilly and Fabiola Miller, Human Embryology and Teratology, 3rd edition. New York: Wiley-Liss, 2001. p. 8.
Share on Facebook“Although life is a continuous process, fertilization… is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new genetically distinct human organism is formed when the chromosomes of the male and female pronuclei blend in the oocyte.”
“[All] organisms, however large and complex they might be as full grown, begin life as a single cell. This is true for the human being, for instance, who begins life as a fertilized ovum.”
Dr. Morris Krieger “The Human Reproductive System” p 88 (1969) Sterling Pub. Co
Share on Facebook“The first cell of a new and unique human life begins existence at the moment of conception (fertilization) when one living sperm from the father joins with one living ovum from the mother. It is in this manner that human life passes from one generation to another. Given the appropriate environment and genetic composition, the single cell subsequently gives rise to trillions of specialized and integrated cells that compose the structures and functions of each individual human body. Every human being alive today and, as far as is known scientifically, every human being that ever existed, began his or her unique existence in this manner, i.e., as one cell. If this first cell or any subsequent configuration of cells perishes, the individual dies, ceasing to exist in matter as a living being. There are no known exceptions to this rule in the field of human biology.”
James Bopp, ed., Human Life and Health Care Ethics, vol. 2 (Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1985)
Share on FacebookRand McNally, Atlas of the Body (New York: Rand McNally, 1980) 139, 144
“In fusing together, the male and female gametes produce a fertilized single cell, the zygote, which is the start of a new individual.”
Quoted in Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000)
Share on Facebook“Your baby starts out as a fertilized egg…For the first six weeks, the baby is called an embryo.”
Prenatal Care, US Department of Health and Human Services, Maternal and Child Health Div 1990
Share on Facebook“The birth of a human life really occurs at the moment the mother’s egg cells is fertilized by one of the father’s sperm cells.”
“Drama of Life Before Birth” Life Magazine April 1965, cited in “The Facts of Life” Life Messengers,
Share on Facebook“Fertilization, then, has taken place. A baby has been conceived.”
Planned Parenthood’s former medical director Mary Calderone, M.D.Planned Parenthood now performs a third of all abortions done in the United States.
Quoted by pro-choice author Magda Denes. Appears in “The Zero People: Essays on Life” by Jeffrey Hensley, Servant Publications (March 1983) p 9
Share on FacebookDr. George W Corner, the endocrinologist and research scientist who first isolated and identified the female hormone progesterone, said in the 1940s:
“The fertilization of an egg by the sperm is one of the greatest wonders of nature, an event in which magnificently small fragments of…life are driven by cosmic forces to their appointed end, the growth of a living human being. As a spectacle, it can be compared only with an eclipse of the sun, or the eruption of a volcano. It is in fact the most common and nearest to us of nature’s cataclysms, and yet is very seldom observed because it occurs in a row most people never see – the region of microscopic things.”
Quoted in Nathanson, Bernard N, M.D The Hand of God: a Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind (Washington DC: Regnery Publishing Inc, 1996) 129 – 130
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