“I don’t think anybody can tell you when… human life begins.”
Professor Robert P. George shows she is scientifically inaccurate and that the answer to this question is not a mystery to science and that claiming uncertainty is ‘intellectually indefensible’. The biological science of when life begins was determined long ago and the scientific facts are uncontested:
Your life began, as did the life of every other human being, when the fusion of egg and sperm produced a new, complete, living organism — an embryonic human being. You were never an ovum or a sperm cell, those were both functionally and genetically parts of other human beings — your parents. But you were once an embryo, just as you were once an adolescent, a child, an infant,and a fetus. By an internally directed process, you developed from the embryonic stage into and through the fetal, infant, child, and adolescent stages of development and ultimately into adulthood with your determinateness, unity, and identity fully intact. You are the same being — the same human being — who once was an embryo.”
He goes on to say that ‘perhaps the debate over when life begins is really about the value we ascribe to human life. It is about the “nature of human dignity and the equality of human beings”.
Professor George gives me hope that not all academics are ruled by political correctness of the day. Please read his entire article at
He ends his article by clarifying the real issue
"In view of the established facts of human embryogenesis and early intrauterinedevelopment, the real question is not whether human beings in the embryonic and fetal stages are human beings. Plainly they are. The question is whether we will honor or abandon our civilizational and national commitment to the equal worth and dignity of all human beings — even the smallest, youngest, weakest, and most vulnerable.”
Obama has made it very clear that he choses to ignore the rights of the
“smallest, youngest and most vulnerable in our society. He is by far the most
extreme pro-abortion candidate to ever serve in either the House or the Senate,
and certain to ever run for the Presidency.
Unbelievably, as an Illinois state senator Obama opposed legislation to protect children who are born alive, either as a result of an abortionists failure to kill them in the womb or by the deliberate delivery of the baby prior to viability. The federal law passed unanimously in the US Senate…winning even the support of ardent pro-abortion politicians like Barbara Boxer, and John Kerry. But in Illinois Obama worked to defeat the bill. Apparently he believes that even a child born ‘by mistake’ and still alive deserves no protection and care and should be left to die.
I’ve watched the video of the nurse who testitifed before a Congressional committee on this issue and was unable to control the tears as I heard her speak of newborns being put in a room and left to die and how she held one child for hours to comfort it as it left this world. To justify this is to make someone a monster…someone who believes in infanticide and has no compassion as a human being.
Let us not allow ourselves to be defined as a people who lack the compassion for human life, either at the beginning or the end.
We have seen far too many leaders in history that don’t care about the rights of the individual. Let’s not elect another one.
