# Abortion-clinic picketers.

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**Created:** [May 6, 2011, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abortion-clinic-picketers/580935 "2011-05-06T05:57:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Asympotically\_fat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Asympotically\_fat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asympotically_fat)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abortion-clinic-picketers/580935/1118 "2011-05-14T15:38:05Z")

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> [@classyladyhp](#):
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> Virtually every secular medical book and even a senate hearing declare human life begins the instant of conception.
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> A report from Senate Judiciary Committee S-158, 1981 reads: “Physicians, biologists and other scientists agree that conception marks the beginning of the life of a human being–a being is alive and is a member of the human species. There is overwhelming agreement on this point in countless medical, biological, and scientific writings.”
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> A split second after conception, this one-celled forty-six-chromosomed human being possesses everything it needs to grow into an adult human except time.
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> As per the above example. Human life begins at conception. Since abortion kills the fetus it ends a human life. Every human has a right to life and the right of the mother to not be inconvenienced is not more important than the baby’s right to live.

Sorry I do not take a comittee of the legislature of country (and in my case another country to boot) as an authority on the issue, the fact that your choosing to quote them on this _politically_-charged issue sends out the wrong signals to me.

It doesn’t seem necessarily _wrong_ to define human life beginning at the moment of conception, but in the term ‘human life’ we’re talking about a very vague concept (and certainly not a medical/scientific term) and it goes no way at all for me to arguing that what is little more than collection of cells should be afforded the same rights as me.

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