And they try again...

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(01-25-2017, 05:51 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: I will let you judge for yourself if that has any political implication or not.

Eh... well OK, point taken. Even though there were still scientists talking, not Conservative politicians. I'd have more German links, to be honest :)

Wikipedia gives me this:

Quote:Many members of the medical community accept fertilization as the point at which life begins. Dr. Bradley M. Patten from the University of Michigan wrote in Human Embryology that the union of the sperm and the ovum "initiates the life of a new individual" beginning "a new individual life history." In the standard college text book Psychology and Life, Dr. Floyd L. Ruch wrote "At the time of conception, two living germ cells—the sperm from the father and the egg, or ovum, from the mother—unite to produce a new individual." Dr. Herbert Ratner wrote that "It is now of unquestionable certainty that a human being comes into existence precisely at the moment when the sperm combines with the egg." This certain knowledge, Ratner says, comes from the study of genetics. At fertilization, all of the genetic characteristics, such as the color of the eyes, "are laid down determinatively." James C. G. Conniff noted the prevalence of the above views in a study published by The New York Times Magazine in which he wrote, "At that moment conception takes place and, scientists generally agree, a new life begins—silent, secret, unknown."[22]

Eh... and then some say it starts 14 days after fertilization, there are some other opinions out there, none of which I found to be particularly helpful for the cause. I found no scientist saying three months after conception is the starting point for life.
No matter how hard I look, the pro choice standpoint seems to be better served when stating that it's not foremost a scientific question. Which I believe to be true.