This is an excerpt from an article posted on Apologetics Press by Wayne Jackson.
Some useful info for those Pro-LIFE campaigners among us:
In April of 1981, a distinguished panel of geneticists and physicians testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee with reference to the nature of the human organism that is produced by the union of a sperm and ovum.
Dr. McCarthy de Mere, a medical doctor and law professor at the University of Tennessee, testified as follows: “The exact moment of the beginning of personhood and of the human body is at the moment of conception” (emp. added).
Known as the “Father of Modern Genetics,” Dr. Jerome Lejeune told the lawmakers: “To accept the fact that after fertilization has taken place a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion … it is plain experimental evidence” (see “Association of…”, 2006)
Note the testimony of world-renowned geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky, an atheist: “A human being begins his existence when a spermatozoon fertilizes an egg cell” (1965, p. 10; emp. added). Even the late Isaac Asimov, a rabid enemy of the Bible, conceded that “the human being … begins life as a fertilized ovum” (20; emp. added). Neither of these men believed in the existence of a “soul”; nonetheless, they acknowledged that the union of sperm and egg is the commencement of a human person.
To purposefully destroy a human embryo is to take the life of a human being.
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