When Does Life Begin?

Did you know that when an unborn baby is just sixteen days old, his or her heart is already beating?

And at week seven, the baby has reflexes; by week thirteen, unique fingerprints have formed; and by week twenty, the baby can yawn?

We’re truly made “fearfully and wonderfully,” as the Psalmist says. But what makes us human? Is it a beating heart? Fingerprints? Movement in the womb?

No. All those things demonstrate that, yes, an unborn baby is absolutely a person. A baby who hasn’t formed fingerprints is no less a human than a baby that hasn’t learned to crawl yet.

Yes, life begins at fertilization.

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