Basic Biology and Guide to the Beginning of Life (fertilization)

June 3, 2025 at 4:14 pm, No comments

There is much debate over when life begins. Some say after the baby's viability, others say when consciousness or 'personhood' begins, or simply right after birth. Some go as far as to say that no one knows when life begins. Where are these claims founded upon? Are they scientific? What is the evidence supporting their statements?

Unfortunately, they are based on an emotional approach and not facts. And because many doctors are promoting this due to the profit they gain, as the abortion clinics, and the majority of celebrities and politicians in the West do as well, it has become a strong influence and a 'confirmation' that makes us feel 'better' about accepting abortion. But they aren't based on facts, but on propaganda and emotional arguments with repeated words and phrases that they sometimes have a difficult time reasoning with logical answers. And unfortunately, being pro-abortion has been masked with it being 'merciful' and doing the 'moral' thing by the woman, not realizing that they are stepping on the value that a woman (a mother in this case) has, and abortion wounds that, while also taking someone else's life.

The Pro-Life stand is a scientific one, which demonstrates life begins at conception. The response is often that it isn't true or that this is solely a religion-based answer. But science disputes otherwise, because objective truths do exist, and one does not necessarily have to be a Christian to know them.

Let's begin our basic guide to the first step of when life is created, and get our basics well learned.

fertilization - the fusion of an egg and sperm immediately resulting in a new, genetically distinct human being (zygote). A multi-step process that is complete in 24 hours.

The fetus/baby has his/her human DNA, distinct from the mother and father, The gender and physical traits like skin, hair, and eye color of a baby are determined at conception So no, a fetus is not part of the woman's body, but a woman's body carries another body that has its own unique human DNA, which is entitled to the rights of his or her autonomy, as this word is often used to justifu abortion. And two humans, a female and a male, cannot produce a cat or an elephant, because they are not of the same species. We can only procreate human (Homo sapiens) babies and vice versa. Embryology (the study of the formation and development of an embryo and fetus) and developmental biology have proven this. Embryology texts, scientific journals, and other relevant authorities also confirm them. Just to bring a few examples:

"Human development begins at fertilization when a sperm fuses with an oocyte to form a single cell, a zygote," explains the textbook The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology. "This highly specialized, totipotent cell marks the beginning of each of us as a unique individual."

"The development of a human being begins with fertilization," notes Langman's Medical Embryology, "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."

Scientists have discovered something amazing. When the sperm enters the egg, within minutes of fertilization, a burst of light emerges. This, once again, signals the beginning of a new, unique life.

If someone insists that fertilization is not the beginning of life, are the following options the correct ones? The following options have been used to indicate that it is the beginning of life. But are they? No, they aren't, and science will tell you why:

Implantation — it is a change in location of the human embryo from the fallopian tube to the uterus. Again, when sperm and egg unite, a unique human life has begun. And this, fertilization/conception, occurs before implantation.

Heartbeat or brainwaves — those are just developmental breakthroughs.
Pain sensation —it is a stage in development ( Congenital Insensitivity to Pain (CIP) is a rare genetic condition where individuals cannot perceive pain from birth, so this stage never develops in some people. Are they less human because of this lack of sensation?)

Consciousness — that’s also, once again, a stage of development which can even change after birth (in a coma, when we sleep, under anesthetic...).
Birth — that’s just a location change. We did not become magically alive in one second.

After fertilization, a human being continues to develop. Our human brains don't fully develop until the age of 25, according to science. How far can this go, then? As said before, after birth, we continue to develop. Are children, teenagers less human, valuable, and deserve fewer rights than fully developed adults? Often, I hear pro-choicers claiming that the fetus is not alive; only after birth does it become magically alive. But how can someone or something grow if it isn't alive?

Final Thoughts

At first, pro-choicers were not so much on board with abortion throughout all nine months. Abortion is extreme in itself, but the other side has its limits. But today, we see that it is widely acceptable to support abortion up until the ninth month and even after birth, if the baby is simply not wanted. How much further will this go if we don't act? I once heard a woman say that we should kill even foster children because of their hard situation. We are seeing the furthering of this with assisted suicide.

Just recently, France passed the law for assisted suicide. Countless stories and statistics are showing the high numbers of people with depression, the homeless, and the elderly with health problems are being offered assisted suicide as a first option. That is for a future article, but the point is that when we accept murder with one set of people, the most innocent ones like babies in the womb, how much more numb will this world become towards other groups? Nothing can come good from something that is, by its nature, destructive.

That is why every single voice, action, and effort to defend life and the most innocent, defenseless humans of our societies is crucial. How did slavery in the USA come to an end? When actions were taken. When a complete abolition of its crime was to be done. When they risked everything to fight for those humans, who had value and were made in the image of God, Who is goodness and love itself.

Our laws, societies should protect the vulnerable, defenseless members of our societies. To ensure that the right of each human life is met. To ensure with their fullest efforts to protect and prevent anything that threatens that. To create a standard of receiving life among the people, rather than welcoming death and abandoning the vulnerable, as assisted suicide does as well. And it all starts at home, too. We can, in our little corner of the world, bring the value of life.

Just because a majority agrees upon something does not make it automatically right. Historically, it has usually been the minority that has fought for the right moral position. In the USA, most people, even those who did not own slaves, believed that slavery was necessary for their economic supremacy in the world and rejected the abolitionists who wanted to criminalize slavery. Once, in Europe, Jews were seen as a problem (and unfortunately today is rising again), and Nazi Germany came, killing over 40 million people, 6 million Jews, just because they weren't seen human enough, if human at all. This is happening again, with our babies. Our society accepts it, justifies it, creates a reasoning that justifies the crime, by molding it being a better moral stand and choice. And staying lukewarm and neutral on these issues is not solving it, rather helping the problem to continue and nurture itself.

Below, you can watch a short but educational, scientific video on fertilization. Fantastic for children as well. Do share these educational videos as much as possible.

Source/video from: Nucleus Medical Media- subtitles are available in 44 languages!

Since “human rights” are rooted in being a human being, rather than one's characteristics, such as size, age, development, etc. It should be obvious that these same rights and dignity that apply to me and you are also to be applied to the baby in the womb. As many try to dehumanize the baby by calling them 'fetuses' (which means 'offspring' in Latin, so the name itself highlights their humanity) or 'zygote' or an embryo, these scientific names do not take away the truth of what the very science proves.

A baby at 7-8 weeks. Image from 'LiveAction'

I hope this has been a helpful, straightforward, and simple guide to the basics of the creation of life. Next time and in future articles, we will dive deeper into specific issues, like answering the solution of these issues in the cases of r*pe and incest, how all pro-lifers should be abolitionists (meaning that abortion should be criminalized), fetal development, the effect of abortions in women physcally and mentally with statistics and personal stories, on chemical abortions, IVF, does banning abortions harm women and more!

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May God bless you, whoever you are, and bring light into your lives. And may through His love, we fight for life and transform our culture of death into a culture of life. And may He heal us from the effects of this culture of death. And know that forgiveness and healing from abortion are found in Jesus Christ.

Sources: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36629778/

https://www.mccl.org/post/2017/12/20/the-unborn-is-a-human-being-what-science-tells-us-about-unborn-children

https://aul.org/abortion/

https://www.akleg.gov/basis/get_documents.asp?session=33&docid=31381

Baby Olivia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-lQOooYAs8

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Basic Biology and Guide to the Beginning of Life (fertilization)

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