You Were Never A Pre-Person

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CREDIT:

• Contend Projets
Website: http://www.ContendProjects.org

• Dianne N. Irving, Ph.D.
Website: http://www.LifeIssues.Net/writer.php?ID=irv

• Issues4Life Foundation
Website: http://www.Issues4Life.org

DESCRIPTION:

The continuum of human life is a biological fact that states at any point in time from the very beginning of the process of human sexual reproduction (fertilization, the moment when the sperm makes first contact with the oocyte or “egg”) or of a-sexual reproduction (when the DNA in a mere cell is regulated back to that of an organism, as in identical “twinning”) until death, there exists the same, whole, individual, integrated human being.

There is no moment along the entire continuum when there is just a “bunch of cells”, and then suddenly there is a whole human organism – a human being.

Additionally, there is international agreement among human embryologists that human development during the eight (8) week embryonic period be divided into 23 stages. It's called the Carnegie Stages of Human Embryonic Development. The Carnegie Stages are the most reliable sources for accurate scientific facts of sexually reproduced human beings. The Carnegie Stages of Human Embryonic Development is: THE GOLD STANDARD.

QUOTE:

“The immediate product of human sexual reproduction (fertilization; fusion of sperm and oocyte) is a new, living, genetically unique, single-cell human being, human embryo, human organism, human individual, who immediately directs his/her own specifically human functions, activities, and development.” − Dianne N. Irving, M.A., Ph.D.