When Does Life Begin?

When does life begin?

Human fertilization occurs with the joining of a human egg and a human sperm cell. Most human cells contain 23 pairs of chromosomes, making a total of 46. (Chromosomes contain coils of DNA, the chemical that carries genetic information.) Human gametes (sperm or egg cells) have only one set of 23 chromosomes. When fertilization occurs, a zygote is formed. This fertilized egg contains 46 chromosomes, 23 from each parent. Because egg and sperm cells go through a process called Recombination where DNA is swapped around, every fertilized egg is unique (with the exception of identical twins). The single cell zygote contains all of the information necessary to turn that one cell into a complex organism.

When you were a zygote, that cell was YOU! If that zygote had been destroyed, YOU would have been destroyed. Allowed to grow, that zygote would not become anything but YOU. YOU began at fertilization.

Abortion destroys a human being. Continue to cry out to God to end the atrocity of abortion in our nation.

May God have mercy on our nation.