{"id":8327,"date":"2011-12-03T00:29:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T05:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/?p=8327"},"modified":"2013-04-02T19:29:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T23:29:16","slug":"newt-gingrich-life-does-not-begin-until-implantation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/newt-gingrich-life-does-not-begin-until-implantation\/","title":{"rendered":"Newt Gingrich: life does not begin until implantation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2011\/12\/gingrich-breaks-from-some-in-anti-abortion-community-on-when-life-begins\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> with ABC News, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said he believes that life doesn\u2019t begin until implantation. Science, though, has proven that life begins earlier, at fertilization.<span style=\"font-size: 75%; vertical-align: super;\">1<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8336\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8336\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8336\" title=\"Newt Gingrich\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Newt-Gingrich.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Gage Skidmore<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gingrich said: \u201cI think the question of being implanted is a very big question. My friends who have ideological positions that sound good don\u2019t then follow through the logic of: \u2018So how many additional potential lives are they talking about? What are they going to do as a practical matter to make this real?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cI think that if you take a position when a woman has fertilized egg and that\u2019s been successfully implanted that now you\u2019re dealing with life.\u201d He concluded that \u201cotherwise you\u2019re going to open up an extraordinary range of very difficult questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gingrich falsely described the scientific position that life begins at fertilization as \u201cideological.\u201d He then questioned the logic of the <em>scientific<\/em> position, using an illogical argument to defend his own <em>unscientific<\/em> position.<\/p>\n<p>First, Gingrich incorrectly labeled human life at fertilization as merely \u201cpotential\u201d life. But zygotes, embryos, and fetuses, just like children, adolescents, and adults, are human lives at different stages of development. And zygotes, embryos, and fetuses are human lives even if not legally recognized as human lives. So we\u2019re not talking about potential lives, we\u2019re talking about existing lives.<\/p>\n<p>Second, he based his belief, and his position, on a strategic analysis of the consequences. But the consequences don\u2019t change the fact of when human life begins.<\/p>\n<p>Gingrich spoke of avoiding \u201cdifficult questions.\u201d Coming from someone running for the highest office in the land, this is telling.<\/p>\n<p>A true leader tackles difficult questions.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 75%;\"><em>Notes:<\/em><br \/>\n1.<em> Carlson BM. Human Embryology and Developmental Biology. 3rd Edition. Mosby, 2004.<\/em><br \/>\n1.<em>\u00a0Moore KL, Persaud TVN. The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology. 8th Edition. Saunders, 2007.<\/em><br \/>\n1.<em>\u00a0O&#8217;Rahilly R, M\u00fcller F. Human Embryology &amp; Teratology. 3rd Edition. Wiley-Liss, 2001.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with ABC News, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said he believes that life doesn\u2019t begin until implantation. Science, though, has proven that life begins earlier, at fertilization.1 Gingrich said: \u201cI think the question of being implanted is a very big question. 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