New Danish law: human life begins at conception.

I-43: Scientific and Religious Controversies on The Beginning of Human Life- What Does 3D/4D Sonography Offer?

One of the most controversial topics in modern bioethics, science, and philosophy is the beginning of individual human life. In the seemingly endless debate, strongly stimulated by recent technologic advances in human reproduction, a synthesis between scientific data and hypothesis, philosophical thought, and issues of humanities has become a necessity to deal with ethical, juridical, and socia...

An American tragedy: the Supreme Court on abortion.

"["]f the deliberate extinguishment of human life has any effect at all, it more likely tends to lower our respect for life and brutalize our values."' "New York courts have already acknowledged that, in the contemporary medical view, the child begins a separate life from the moment of conception." 2

On the legal status of the proposition that "life begins at conception.

The Corporeal Aspect and Procreative Function

The crucial question in the abortion debate is not when human life begins. Even many pro-choice advocates, from early on in the history of their movement, have quietly acknowledged that human life begins at conception. This after all had been the consensus of the medical community until Roe vs. Wade in 1973. But in a strategy of deceit, well chronicled by Curt Young, the reality of human life b...

Abortion- Sociological Perspective

The debate on abortion gets heated because some people feel that abortion should be abolished while others argue that is should be legalized. Those who against abortion reason that life begins at conception, and hence the unborn child has equal human rights with any other living person. This makes them state that abortion is murder and that those involved should be charged with murder in a cour...