I am bumping my own post because at least 1 poster refuses to acknowledge the science and the law of the US.I've been digging a little since dinner. By all appearances, the experts in human development before birth consider human life starts well before birth. The US Congress and the Big O also imply it, because they banned federal embryonic research.
- NIH
Why would they do that for a mushroom?
The most prominent medical dictionary around implies that a human zygote is nothing else than a human zygote:
“The development of a human being begins with fertilization, a process by which the spermatozoon from the male and the oocyte from the female unite to give rise to a new organism, the zygote.” — Langman’s Medical Embryology, 7th edition, 1995
continued here.
- Robert P. George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics. Patrick Lee is professor of philosophy at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. The New Atlantis » Acorns and Embryos
- Human Embryo Research -- Committee on Pediatric Research and Committee on Bioethics 108 (3): 813 -- AAP Policy
CNSNews.com - Obama Signs Law Banning Federal Embryo Research Two Days After Signing Executive Order to OK It