Statement by Larry Frieders, former Vice-President of Pharmacists for Life:
"Life begins at the beginning. There is only one point in time when a new life is created. And that's when there are 23 chromosomes from mom and 23 chromosomes from dad that come together, miraculously, and create a new cell containing 46 chromosomes. It is an organism unlike any that's ever existed in the past and totally unlike anything that will ever exist again. It is a human being. [Human life begins when the sperm enters the egg]
"It is not part of the mother's body. It is a cell of 46 chromosomes made up of two other half cells. It is human life. It doesn't become life until something magical happens to it, because the magical thing has already happened! God took two unique things and created something totally unique from those two things.
"Now, during the seven to ten days that this new life is progressing down the fallopian tube, it is growing in size continuously — it is doubling and doubling and doubling, until it reaches a point where it needs to attach to the mother's uterus in order to gain additional nourishment from her blood supply.
"But at no time does this still very tiny human child ever become part of the woman's body. Nor is the mother part of the child. The mother is a vessel in which this child is growing. The mother is providing nourishment, and providing a safe and warm place for the baby to survive.
"The blood supplies are totally different. They do not share chemical activities of the body. Mother may be sick, baby may be healthy, there is not a one-to-one relationship. So at no time does baby become a part of mom.
"That's the physiology that so obviously contradicts the rhetoric of abortion when people are talking merely about the rights of women. I believe strongly in peoples' rights, it's one of the gifts the Lord has given us, the right to choose.
"But that little life is not a part of the mother; therefore, the mother does not have a moral right to have the other person killed."
(The New Abortionists: Chemical Abortion in Contemporary Culture, [1994] American Life League, 3-4)
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Recommended reading:
A Scientific Fact: Life Begins At The Moment Of Conception
https://www.facebook.com/17605900/posts/10100949373175517/?d=n
“41 Quotes From Medical Textbooks Prove Human Life Begins at Conception” https://www.lifenews.com/2015/01/08/41-quotes-from-medical-textbooks-prove-human-life-begins-at-conception/
“New Scientific Study Proves Human Life Begins at Conception” https://www.lifenews.com/2019/06/20/new-scientific-study-proves-human-life-begins-at-conception/
“The New York Times Just Admitted That Human Life Begins at Conception” https://www.lifenews.com/2021/09/07/the-new-york-times-just-admitted-that-human-life-begins-at-conception/
