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)
Here are several quotes by experts on this subject:
Fritz Baumgartner, MD:
"There is no more pivotal moment in the subsequent growth and development of a human being than when 23 chromosomes of the father join with 23 chromosomes of the mother to form a unique, 46-chromosomed individual, with a gender, who had previously simply not existed. Period. No debate." He continues,
"The bottom line is that in terms of biology and human embryology, a human being begins immediately at fertilization and after that, there is no point along the continuous line of human embryogenesis where only a "potential" human being can be posited. Any philosophical, legal, or political conclusion cannot escape this objective scientific fact. Every human embryologist worldwide states that the life of the new individual human being begins at fertilization. No human embryologist has ever described human life as "potential" human life."
Dr. Jerome Lejeune once noted that the very first cell, the fertilized egg cell or zygote, is "the most specialized cell under the sun". According to Dr. Lejeune,
"Each of us has a very precise starting moment which is the time at which the whole necessary and sufficient genetic information is gathered inside one cell, the fertilized egg, and this is the moment of fertilization. There is not the slightest doubt about that and we know that this information is written on a kind of ribbon which we call the DNA…Nature has used the smallest possible language to carry the information from father to children, from mother to children, from generation to generation…At no time is the human being a blob of protoplasm. As far as your nature is concerned, I see no difference between the early person that you were at conception and the late person which you are now. You were and are a human being."
When Dr. Lejeune testified in the Louisiana legislature he said, "Recent discoveries by Dr. Alec Jeffreys of England demonstrate that the information (on the DNA molecule) is stored by a system of bar codes not unlike those found on products at the supermarkets…it’s not any longer a theory that each of us is unique."
In 1989, during testimony on "The Seven Human Embryos in Tennessee", Dr. Lejeune made the following observation:
"...as soon as he has been conceived, a man is a man."
Dr. Lejeune stated elsewhere the fact that "…each of us has a unique beginning, the moment of conception … As soon as the 23 chromosomes carried by the sperm encounter the 23 chromosomes carried by the ovum, the whole information necessary and sufficient to spell out all the characteristics of the new being is gathered … a new human being is defined which has never occurred before and will never occur again … [it] is not just simply a non-descript cell, or a ‘population’ or loose ‘collection’ of cells, but a very specialized individual …"
(Lejeune J. A. Symphony of the Preborn Child. part 2. (Hagerstown: NAACP, 1989)
Dr. Lejeune of Paris, France, was a physician and Doctor of Science and Professor of Genetics for 25 years. Dr. Lejeune discovered the genetic cause for Down’s Syndrome. He received awards such as the Kennedy Prize and the Memorial Allen Award Medal; he was a member of The American Academy of Arts and Science, the Royal Society of Medicine of London, and the Royal Society of Science in Stockholm. Dr. Lejeune died April 3, 1994.
Ecuadorian Federation of Societies of Gynecology and Obstetrics (April 17, 2008):
"Science teaches that human life begins at conception. If it is also true that it is affirmed by religion, it does not for that reason cease to be a strictly scientific truth, to be transformed into a religious opinion. He who denies that human life begins with conception does not need to contend with religion, but science. To deny this certainty of biology is not to express a lack of faith, but a lack of basic knowledge of human genetics, something that is even known by the general public."
Dr. Timothy M. Cocker:
"As far as observable science is concerned, human life begins at conception."
(“Characterization and Qualification of Cell Substrates and Other Biological Starting Materials Used in the Production of Viral Vaccines for the Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases,” https://web.archive.org/web/20170429080032/http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/DOCKETS/dockets/06d0383/06D-0383-EC4290.htm)
Dr. Kischer, emeritus professor of Anatomy at the University of Arizona:
"…the first thing learned in human embryology [is] that the life of the new individual human being begins at fertilization (conception)."
(Kischer CW. Let’s be factual about the human embryo. http://www.all.org/abac/ab020128.htm)
He continues, "we should respect a microscopic human embryo because at that time it is an integrated whole organism, just as the human is at every moment in time until death. Every human embryo deserves as much respect as you or I because it is formed as a new individual human life within the continuum of life …" To deny this, Kischer says, is "a trivialization and corruption of the science of human embryology."
Dr. Kischer:
“Virtually every human embryologist and every major textbook of human embryology states that fertilization marks the beginning of the life of the new individual human being.”
"There can no longer any doubt that each human being is totally unique from the very beginning of his or her life at fertilization."
—Dr. David Fu-Chi Mark, a nationally celebrated molecular biologist who has patented various polymerase chain reaction techniques.
The American College of Pediatricians:
"The American College of Pediatricians concurs with the body of scientific evidence that human life begins at conception—fertilization."
Textbook after textbook on human embryology agree on the question of when life begins. The embryology textbook called “The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology”, 6th ed., by Moore et al., 1998, notes that so-called emergency contraceptive pills (i.e., "morning-after pills") “prevent implantation, not fertilization. Consequently, they should not be called contraceptive pills … Because the term abortion refers to a premature stoppage of a pregnancy, the term ‘abortion’ could be applied to such an early termination of pregnancy." It further states, "the intricate process by which a baby develops from a single cell is miraculous … A zygote is the beginning of a new human being."
Bruce Carlson’s 1994 textbook Human Embryology and Developmental Biology states, "human pregnancy begins with the fusion of an egg and sperm … Finally, the fertilized egg, now properly called an embryo, must make its way into the uterus.”
The official U.S. Public Health Service Policy defines abortion as follows:
"All the measures which impair the viability of the zygote anytime between the instant of fertilization and the completion of labor constitute, in the strict sense, procedures for inducing abortion."
(Public Health Service Leaflet no. 1066, US Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963, 27)
"It is now of unquestionable certainty that a human being comes into existence precisely at the moment when the sperm combines with the egg. When the sperm and egg nuclei unite, all the characteristics, such as colour of eyes, hair, skin, that make a unique personality are laid down determinatively."
-Dr. H. Ratner, Report April 1966
"From the moment a baby is conceived, it bears the indelible stamp of a separate distinct personality, an individual different from all other individuals."
-Ultrasound pioneer, Sir William Liley, M.D., in 1967
"Human development begins at fertilization, the process during which a male gamete or sperm (spermatozoo developmentn) unites with a female gamete or oocyte (ovum) to form a single cell called a zygote. This highly specialized, totipotent cell marked the beginning of each of us as a unique individual."
"A zygote is the beginning of a new human being (i.e., an embryo)."
(Keith L. Moore, The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 7th edition. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, 2003. pp. 16, 2)
"[The zygote], formed by the union of an oocyte and a sperm, is the beginning of a new human being."
(Keith L. Moore, Before We Are Born: Essentials of Embryology, 7th edition. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, 2008. p. 2)
"Although life is a continuous process, fertilization (which, incidentally, is not a 'moment') 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."
(Ronan O'Rahilly and Fabiola Müller, Human Embryology and Teratology, 3rd edition. New York: Wiley-Liss, 2001. p. 8)
"Human embryos begin development following the fusion of definitive male and female gametes during fertilization... This moment of zygote formation may be taken as the beginning or zero time point of embryonic development."
(William J. Larsen, Essentials of Human Embryology. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1998. pp. 1, 14)
"It is the penetration of the ovum by a spermatozoan and resultant mingling of the nuclear material each brings to the union that constitues the culmination of the process of fertilization and marks the initiation of the life of a new individual."
(Clark Edward Corliss, Patten's Human Embryology: Elements of Clinical Development. New York: McGraw Hill, 1976. p. 30)
"The term conception refers to the union of the male and female pronuclear elements of procreation from which a new living being develops."
"The zygote thus formed represents the beginning of a new life."
(J.P. Greenhill and E.A. Friedman, Biological Principles and Modern Practice of Obstetrics. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1974. pp. 17, 23)
"Every time a sperm cell and ovum unite a new being is created which is alive and will continue to live unless its death is brought about by some specific condition."
(E.L. Potter and J.M. Craig, Pathology of the Fetus and the Infant, 3rd edition. Chicago: Year Book Medical Publishers, 1975. p. vii)
"Every baby begins life within the tiny globe of the mother's egg... It is beautifully translucent and fragile and it encompasses the vital links in which life is carried from one generation to the next. Within this tiny sphere great events take place. When one of the father's sperm cells, like the ones gathered here around the egg, succeeds in penetrating the egg and becomes united with it, a new life can begin."
(Geraldine Lux Flanagan, Beginning Life. New York: DK, 1996. p. 13)
"Biologically speaking, human development begins at fertilization."
(The Biology of Prenatal Develpment, National Geographic, 2006)
"The two cells gradually and gracefully become one. This is the moment of conception, when an individual's unique set of DNA is created, a human signature that never existed before and will never be repeated."
(In the Womb, National Geographic, 2005)
"When fertilization is complete, a unique genetic human entity exists."
(C. Christopher Hook, M.D. Oncologist, Mayo Clinic, Director of Ethics Education, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine)
Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr:
"The underlying premise in the arguments pro-abortionists give against fetal personhood is that non-persons can change into persons. They are saying that a living being can undergo a radical, essential change in its nature during its lifetime. But there is a logical problem here. If the change was biologically inevitable from conception, given time, then this change is not a change in essential nature. This is because if the being naturally initiates the change, it must be in its nature from the beginning to do so. If it is in its nature to do so, then despite any changes in such characteristics as independence, place of residence, physical development, or demonstration of mental ability, what the being is in later life is what the being is from the beginning of its life. This means that if we are persons with the right to be free from aggression later in life, we are persons even at conception."
("A False Assumption," Libertarians for Life, (1999) at: http://www.l4l.org/)
"It is the penetration of the ovum by a spermatozoan and the resulting intermingling of the chromosomal material...that..initiates the life of a new individual."
(B.M. Patten, Foundations of Embryology in 1964)
"A human being originates in the union of two gametes, the ovum and the spermatozoan."
(J.A.F. Roberts, An Introduction to Medical Genetics in 1965)
"The initiation of a new life occurs at the moment when fertilization is completed by fusion of the two sets of chromosomes."
(Treloar, Behn, and Cowan, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1967)
The result (of the abortion debate) has been a curious avoidance other scientific fact...that human life begins at conception and is continuous..."
-California Medicine in 1970
"The development of a human being begins with fertilization..."
-Medical Embryology in 1975
"Human development begins after the union of male and female gametes ...during a process known as fertilization (conception)."
-Essentials of Human Embryology in 1988
"The time of fertilization represents the starting point in the life history, or ontogeny, of the individual."
-Patten's Foundations of Embryology in 1996
"Zygote. This cell results from the union of an oocyte (egg) and a sperm ...A zygote is the beginning of a new human being. Embryo. The developing human during its earliest stages..."
-The Developing Human in 2003
“(Fertilization is) that wondrous moment that marks the beginning of life for a new unique individual.”
-Dr. Louis Fridhandler. (“Gametogenesis to Implantation.” Biology of Gestation, vol. 1, ed. N.S. Assau (New York: Academic Press, 1968), p. 76)
“A new individual is created when the elements of a potent sperm merge with those of a fertile ovum, or egg.”
(Encyclopedia Britannica. “Pregnancy,” The New Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed., Macropedia, vol. 14 (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1974), 968)
In the most recent edition of The Developing Human, the authors define zygote or fertilized ovum as “the beginning of a new human being.”
"It is incorrect to say that biological data cannot be decisive...It is scientifically correct to say that an individual human life begins at conception."
(Professor Micheline Matthews-Roth Harvard University Medical School testimony before the Subcommittee on Separation of Powers to Senate Judiciary Committee S-158, Report, 97th Congress, 1st Session, 1981)
The official Senate report reached this conclusion:
"Physicians, biologists, and other scientists agree that conception marks the beginning of the life of a human being - a being that is alive and is a member of the human species. There is overwhelming agreement on this point in countless medical, biological, and scientific writings."
"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."
(T.W. Sadler, Langman's Medical Embryology, 10th edition. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006. p. 11)
"When the sperm and egg fuse, the newly-formed cell has conferred upon it the degree of Homo Sapiens, with all the rights and privileges pertaining."
(Note, "Rights and Privileges)."
-Peter Amenta, Ph.D. Professor of Embryology, Hahnemann Medical School
"It is scientifically correct to say that an individual human life begins at conception."
-Professor M. Matthews-Roth, Harvard University Medical School
"I oppose abortion. I do so, first because I accept what is biologically manifest - human life commences at the time of conception - and secondly, because I believe it is wrong to take an innocent human life under any circumstances."
(Dr. Landrum Shettles, pioneer in sperm biology, testifying before the Subcommittee on Separation of Powers to Senate Judiciary Committee S-158, Report, 97th Congress, 1st Session, 1981)
"I have learned from my earliest medical education that human life begins at conception. I submit that human life is present throughout this entire sequence, from conception to adulthood, and any interruption at any point throughout this time constitutes the termination of a human life."
(Dr. A.M. Bongioanni, professor of obstetrics, University of Pennsylvania)
Dr. Watson A. Bowes, University of Colorado Medical School, testified to a U.S. Senate committee that human life begins at conception:
“The beginning of a single human life is from a biological point of view a simple and straightforward matter—the beginning is conception. This straightforward biological fact should not be distorted to serve sociological, political, or economic goals."
Judge Michael J. Noonan ruled as follows in a New Jersey case based on a man's efforts to save his unborn child from being aborted:
"…based upon the undisputed medical testimony by arguably the foremost authority in genetics in the world, I found that human life begins as conception; and that Roe vs. Wade permits a legal execution of that human being."
(MUNICIPAL COURT OF NEW JERSEY LAW DIVISION - MORRIS COUNTY CRIMINAL ACTION DOCKET NO. C1771, ET SEQ. STATE OF NEW JERSEY V. ALEXANDER LOCE, et als. DEFENDANTS APRIL 29, 1991 HONORABLE MICHAEL J. NOONAN)
In his film, "The Silent Scream," Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a co-founder of the abortion organization NARAL, coined the most common [false] pro-abortion slogans. He once operated one of the largest abortion mills in the Western hemisphere and resided over thousands of abortions, including the abortion of his own son. He wrote,
"Modern technologies have convinced us that beyond question the unborn child is simply another human being, another member of the human community, indistinguishable in every way from any of us." Dr. Nathanson wrote Aborting America to inform the public of the realities behind the abortion "rights" movement of which he had been a primary leader.
(Aborting America (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979).)
At the time, Dr. Nathanson was a determined atheist. His conclusions were not even remotely religious or influenced from any religious denomination, but were squarely based on biological facts.
The Official Senate report on Senate Bill 158, the "Human Life Bill," summarized the issue this way:
Physicians, biologists, and other scientists agree that conception marks the beginning of the life of a human being—a being that is alive and is a member of the human species. There is overwhelming agreement on this point in countless medical, biological, and scientific writings.
(Report, Subcommittee on Separation of Powers to Senate Judiciary Committee S-158, 97th Congress, 1st Session 1981, 7)
" . . . every time a sperm cell and ovum unite, a new being is created which is alive and will continue to live unless its death is brought about by some specific condition."
(E.L. Potter, M.D., and J.M. Craig, M.D. Pathology of the Fetus and the Infant (3rd Edition). Chicago: Year Book Medical Publishers, 1975, page vii)
"Zygote. This cell, formed by the union of an ovum and a sperm represents the beginning of a human being."
(Moore, Keith L. and Persaud, T.V.N. Before We Are Born: Essentials of Embryology and Birth Defects. 4th edition. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1993, p. 1)
"Although human life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed.”
(O'Rahilly, Ronan and Müller, Fabiola. Human Embryology and Teratology, 2nd edition. New York: Wiley-Liss, 1996)
PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADMITS LIFE BEGINS AT THE MOMENT OF CONCEPTION!!!
“... at least one [sperm] will reach the egg, fertilize it, and conception will take place. A new life will begin.”
(Conception, Birth and Contraception. Approved by Planned Parenthood and SIECUS in 1969 as "a fine book" with a "solid base for understanding .. reproduction").
More excerpts from the aforementioned book:
"... at least one [sperm] will reach the egg, fertilize it, and conception will take place. A new life will begin." (page 15)
"From fertilization to delivery, mother and child are as one for approximately 266 days. At the end of the period the mother delivers the infant into the world ..." (page 3)
"However small it may be, the egg is about two thousand times as large as the sperm that must fertilize it. ...it carries the food the growing embryo will use during the first few days of its life." (page 26)
"... the bloodstreams of mother and fetus ... never touch, and the blood in each remains separate. Oxygen and nutrients pass through the placenta, from the bloodstream of the mother to the fetus, and waste products from the fetus pass in the reverse direction into the bloodstream of the mother." (page 64) [i.e., the fetus is not part of the mother's body]
Therefore, that newly formed human life is a separate person from his or her mother and is deserving of dignity and respect and not condemnation at any stage of human development from the moment of conception till natural death.
Medical textbooks supporting the fact that life begins at conception include an extremely popular medical textbook titled, ''The Developing Human, clinically Oriented Embryology“, 6th Edition, Moore, Persuad, Saunders, 1998. It states on page two:
''The intricate processes by which a baby develops from a single cell are miraculous....This cell [the zygote] results from the union of an oocyte [egg] and sperm. A zygote is the beginning of a new human being....''
And on page 18 this same theme is repeated:
''Human development begins at fertilization....''.
According to another leading medical textbook, ''Obstetric Nursing,'' Addison-Wesley Publishing, [1980] (p. 136):
''Thus a new cell is formed from the union of a male and female gamete. The cell, referred to as the zygote, contains a new combination of genetic material, resulting in an individual different from either parents and from anyone else in the world.''
Some celebrities have turned against abortion after they had read what modern medical textbooks are saying. Supermodel/actress Kathy Ireland was once pro-abortion, but is now 100% pro-life. She appeared on the former ''Politically Incorrect'' television program and took part in a debate concerning abortion ''rights'' and discussed whether or not the State of Florida should approve CHOOSE LIFE license plates. Mrs. Ireland courageously defended the preborn. She said:
''I was once ''pro-choice'' and the thing that changed my mind was, I read my husband's biology books, medical books, and what I learned...At the moment of conception, a life starts. And this life had its own unique set of DNA, which contains a blueprint for the whole genetic makeup. The sex is determined. We know there's a life because it's growing and changing.'' (Lovematters.com, vol. 2. 2001, complimentary edition)
Cloning also proves that life begins at conception. According to Kelly Hollowell, J.D., Ph.D.,
"Cloning technology is simple to understand. All cells containing DNA have 46 chromosomes except the sperm and egg, which have only 23 chromosomes each. In natural conception, 23 chromosomes of the sperm and 23 chromosomes of the egg unite to create a single cell embryo containing 46 chromosomes. The genetic makeup of every living human being is determined when the sperm and egg unite. This is commonly known as the point of conception. Conversely, in cloning, one adult cell containing 46 chromosomes is isolated from a donor. The DNA or genetic material comprising 46 chromosomes is removed from the donor cell. Similarly, a recipient egg is selected, isolated and the 23 chromosomes of a recipient egg are removed and discarded. The 46 chromosomes of the donor cell are introduced into the now empty (enucleated) egg. This is the point of conception! Therefore, the moment the 46 chromosomes of the donor cell are introduced into the enucleated egg, a single cell embryological twin of the donor has been created."
The bottom line is that abortion kills. This is even admitted by Planned Parenthood….
PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADMITS THAT ABORTION IS THE KILLING OF A HUMAN BEING:
Faye Wattleton, the longest reigning president of the largest abortion provider in the world, Planned Parenthood, pointed out back in 1997 that everyone already knows that abortion kills. She proclaimed the following in an interview with Ms. Magazine:
"I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is not killing is a signal of our ambivalence, a signal that we cannot say yes, it kills a fetus."
And Naomi Wolf, a prominent feminist author and abortion supporter, makes a similar concession when she says,
"Clinging to a rhetoric about abortion in which there is no life and no death, we entangle our beliefs in a series of self-delusions, fibs and evasions. And we risk becoming precisely what our critics charge us with being: callous, selfish and casually destructive men and women who share a cheapened view of human life...we need to contextualize the fight to defend abortion rights within a moral framework that admits that the death of a fetus is a real death."
Pro-abortionists delude themselves into thinking that abortion is not the killing of a human person and that life does not begin at conception. The language that they routinely use to degrade the preborn is no different than the degrading language that the Nazis used when it came to the Jews and others whom they deemed as "non-persons" not worthy of life. Not that they are Nazis, but the demeaning language that they often use to devalue the preborn is strikingly similar to the anti-life rhetoric of the Nazis. it is important to note that one of the leading Nazis was Dr. Josef Mengele, officer and physician at the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was called the "Angel of Death". He escaped capture at the end of World War 2. He lived the rest of his life in South America working as an abortionist. Abortionists today can trace their roots back to the Nazis and Dr. Mengele. They are the modern day "Angels of Death".
In general, the culture of death propaganda that has caused so many people to die and so many families to become destroyed is no different than the propaganda of the Nazis during World War II.
Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was associated with Dr. Ernst Rudin; the infamous Nazi physician whose writings were published in Sanger‘s Birth Control Review. His rhetoric included the false slogan “freedom of choice” which was later adopted by the abortion movement during the 60’s, especially through the work of former abortionists like Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a co-founder of NARAL, who invented many of the pro-abortion slogans still in use today. Make no doubt about it. The culture of death rhetoric that is being spread today and the pro-abortion propaganda finds many of its roots in the anti-pro life thinking of Nazi Germany…
On 27 April 1943 Prof. Erhard Wetzel, Racial Administrator for the Reich's Eastern Territories Ministry, wrote this memorandum:
"Every propaganda means, especially the press, radio, and movies, as well as pamphlets, booklets, and lectures, must be used to instill in the Russian population the idea that it is harmful to have several children. We must emphazise the expenses that children cause, the good things that people could have had with the money spent on them. We could also hint at the dangerous effect of child-bearing on a woman's health. Paralleling such propaganda, a large-scale campaign would be launched in favor of contraceptive devices. A contraceptive industry must be established. Neither the circulation and sale of contraceptives nor abortions must be prosecuted. It will even be necessary to open special institutions for abortion, and to train midwives and nurses for this purpose. The population will practice abortion all the more willingly if these institutions are competently operated." (Harvest of Hate, pp. 272-3)
As the saying goes, “Those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it.”
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After World War II, Dr. Leo Alexander was appointed as chief medical advisor to Telford Taylor, the U.S. Chief of Counsel for War Crimes. He also gave expert testimony when he participated in the Nuremberg Trials in November 1946. He helped to create the Nuremberg Code after observing and documenting German SS medical experiments at Dachau, and instances of sterilization and euthanasia.
The Nazis produced pro-death propaganda films that promoted euthanasia and one such film was called Ich klage an (I Accuse). On July 14, 1949, Dr. Leo Alexander wrote an article concerning the Nazi horrors and the film I Accuse. The article was titled "Medical Practice Under Dictatorship" and it was featured in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. He wrote:
"This film (I Accuse) depicts the life history of a woman suffering from multiple sclerosis; in it her husband [a doctor] finally kills her to the accompaniment of soft piano music rendered by a sympathetic colleague in an adjoining room. Acceptance of this ideology was implanted even in the children." (39)
Several years later, in 1984, Dr. Alexander assessed the situation in America as follows:
"It is much like Germany in the 20's and 30's--the barriers against killing are being removed" (Joseph R. Stanton, M.D., "The New Untermenschen," Human Life Review [Fall 1985], 77.)
