{"id":232725,"date":"2020-10-13T13:22:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T18:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=232725"},"modified":"2020-10-13T16:57:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T21:57:21","slug":"amy-coney-barrett-science-life-fertilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/amy-coney-barrett-science-life-fertilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Amy Coney Barrett agrees with science: Life begins at fertilization"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, currently in confirmation hearings before the Senate, has faced scrutiny for her pro-life stance. A Catholic mother of seven, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, and a judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Barrett has never hidden her knowledge and understanding that life begins at fertilization (often referred to as “conception”).<\/p>\n

In 2006, as a private citizen, Barrett publicly supported St. Joseph County Right to Life, also known as Right to Life Michiana<\/a>, which has been called “extreme<\/a>” for taking the scientific position that life begins at fertilization. The organization ran a full-page newspaper ad in the South Bend Tribune noting the need to “defend the right to life from fertilization to natural death,” and Barrett and her husband Jesse signed their names to it. That advertisement also referred to abortion as “barbaric<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

During her January 18, 2013, presentation titled “Roe at 40: The Supreme Court, Abortion and the Culture War that Followed,” Barrett spoke “to her own conviction that life begins at conception,” reported<\/a> Notre Dame Magazine. Abortion advocates are attacking her for this, but science shows that Barrett’s convictions align with scientific fact<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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