Given that you seem to be arguing that a fertilized egg is not a human being... when according to science does it become one? (please note this is not an argument about when a human being becomes a person protected by our constitution... its just me pointing out that what you said manifests a lack of understanding about what a human being is.... its not the pope who told us... its many scientists...
I did a very quick search to help you out...
many scientists will tell you that when 23 chromosomes from the male combine with 23 from the female come together they form a human being.
http://liveactionnews.org/life-begins-at-conception-science-teaches/
Scientific textbooks proclaim this fact. Keith L. Moore’s The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology (7th edition, Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, 2003) states the following:
A zygote [fertilized egg] is the beginning of a new human being. Human development begins at fertilization, the process during which a male gamete … unites with a female gamete or oocyte … to form a single cell called a zygote. This highly specialized, totipotent cell marks the beginning of each of us as a unique individual.
https://www.princeton.edu/~prolife/articles/wdhbb.html
very interesting approach to the difference between human being and human person.
http://fallibleblogma.com/index.php/when-does-science-say-human-life-begins/
“That is, in human reproduction, when sperm joins ovum, these two individual cells cease to be, and their union generates a new and distinct organism. This organism is a whole, though in the beginning developmentally immature, member of the human species. Readers need not take our word for this: They can consult any of the standard human-embryology texts, such as Moore and Persaud’s The Developing Human, Larsen’s Human Embryology, Carlson’s Human Embryology & Developmental Biology, and O’Rahilly and Mueller’s Human Embryology & Teratology.” – Dr. Robert George - See more at: http://fallibleblogma.com/index.php/when-does-science-say-human-life-begins/#sthash.Bbhz3GCs.dpuf
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/07/medical-views-when-does-human-life-begin/
Dr. Joseph DeCook, executive director of the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a group of about 2,500 members, said an embryo is a living human being at the moment of fertilization.
“There’s no question at all when human life begins,” said DeCook, a retired obstetrician-gynecologist. “When the two sets of chromosomes get together, you have a complete individual. It’s the same as you and I but less developed.”
Pregnancy begins when the embryo is implanted on the uterine wall, he said.
“But we’re not talking about pregnancy,” he said. “The question you have to focus on, is when does meaningful, valuable human life begin? That’s with the union of the two sets of chromosome. You have a complete human being that begins developing.”
I did a very quick search to help you out...
many scientists will tell you that when 23 chromosomes from the male combine with 23 from the female come together they form a human being.
http://liveactionnews.org/life-begins-at-conception-science-teaches/
Scientific textbooks proclaim this fact. Keith L. Moore’s The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology (7th edition, Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, 2003) states the following:
A zygote [fertilized egg] is the beginning of a new human being. Human development begins at fertilization, the process during which a male gamete … unites with a female gamete or oocyte … to form a single cell called a zygote. This highly specialized, totipotent cell marks the beginning of each of us as a unique individual.
https://www.princeton.edu/~prolife/articles/wdhbb.html
very interesting approach to the difference between human being and human person.
http://fallibleblogma.com/index.php/when-does-science-say-human-life-begins/
“That is, in human reproduction, when sperm joins ovum, these two individual cells cease to be, and their union generates a new and distinct organism. This organism is a whole, though in the beginning developmentally immature, member of the human species. Readers need not take our word for this: They can consult any of the standard human-embryology texts, such as Moore and Persaud’s The Developing Human, Larsen’s Human Embryology, Carlson’s Human Embryology & Developmental Biology, and O’Rahilly and Mueller’s Human Embryology & Teratology.” – Dr. Robert George - See more at: http://fallibleblogma.com/index.php/when-does-science-say-human-life-begins/#sthash.Bbhz3GCs.dpuf
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/07/medical-views-when-does-human-life-begin/
Dr. Joseph DeCook, executive director of the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a group of about 2,500 members, said an embryo is a living human being at the moment of fertilization.
“There’s no question at all when human life begins,” said DeCook, a retired obstetrician-gynecologist. “When the two sets of chromosomes get together, you have a complete individual. It’s the same as you and I but less developed.”
Pregnancy begins when the embryo is implanted on the uterine wall, he said.
“But we’re not talking about pregnancy,” he said. “The question you have to focus on, is when does meaningful, valuable human life begin? That’s with the union of the two sets of chromosome. You have a complete human being that begins developing.”
