Ashley Montagu Quotes

There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.

As I said, I believe life starts at conception.

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

as to fix the moment that the embryo becomes an animal.

The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception.

No human being really begins on the day which appears in the passport as their date of birth. We all begin much much much earlier.

It is a real issue, a measurement of our society, when we say it's fine to destroy unborn life who has a heartbeat at 16 days post-conception.

As an O.B. doctor of thirty years, and having delivered 4,000 babies, I can assure you life begins at conception.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

I am one to believe that life starts at the moment of conception.

The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.

I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.

I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.

The earliest period at which I have been able to detect the existence of the spleen in the human embryo is at the second month.

Science has advanced a long way in the 44 years since Roe v. Wade, and it is time that our laws reflect the undeniable truth that life begins at fertilization and that unborn citizens are entitled to the same protections as every American.

The vast majority of abortions are performed between the seventh and tenth week when the baby is already sucking his thumb, recoiling from pricking, responding to sound. All his organs are present, the brain is functioning, the heart is pumping, the liver is making blood cells, the kidneys are cleaning fluids, and there is a fingerprint. His genetic code is uniquely and unquestionably human. And, if we are willing, he can be seen by ultrasound.

I do believe life begins at conception. The very first time I ran for election, I took out an editorial in the local newspaper and said 'look I am a democrat. (But) on this issue, because I see it as a human rights issue, if you wanted me to vote to promote that I wouldn't be able to do that.

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

Scientifically, there's no debate over whether the fetus is alive and human.

This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits it, and in what stage it dwells there, and the manner of its quickening and feeding, and its growth, and what interval there is between one stage of growth and another, and what thing drives it forth from the body of the mother, and for what reason it sometimes emerges from the belly of its mother before the due time.

are you certain that a man's life begins with his birth?

A newborn already has nine months of experience when she is born.