When Human Life Begins Is a Question of Politics—Not Biology

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When Human Life Begins Is a Question of Politics—Not Biology
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Philosophers have long pointed out that understanding what it is to be human requires a lot more than biology. And scientists can’t establish when a fertilized cell or embryo or fetus becomes a human being.

—including religious leaders, voters, philosophers and Supreme Court justices—to determine when human life begins.

Then, he sent 62,469 biologists who could be identified from institutional faculty and researcher lists a separate survey, offering several options for when, biologically, human life might begin. He got 5,502 responses; 95 percent of those self-selected respondents said that life began at fertilization, when a sperm and egg merge to form a single-celled zygote.

That result is not a proper survey method and does not carry any statistical or scientific weight. It is like asking 100 people about their favorite sport, finding out that only the In the end, just 70 of those 60,000-plus biologists supported Jacobs’s legal argument enough to sign the amicus brief, which makes a companion argument to the main case.

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