sperm cells in the male and the egg cells in the female. It is only in
             combination that these cells can create a fetus. The merger is complete within twelve
             hours, at which time the egg is fertilized and becomes known as a "zygote," containing
             the full set of forty-six chromosomes required to create a new human life. It is at
             that point that life begins and should be respected with the same laws that apply to us
             all, whether we are dependent on a womb or not. Conception creates life and makes that
             The opposition would argue otherwise. To be a person, there must be evidence of a
             personality. Animals contain biological characteristics, but that does not qualify them
             as a person. It takes more than ten days after the fertilization for the conceptus to
             become anything more than a hollow ball of cells. During the first week, it is
             free-floating and not even attached to the uterine wall. Not until the beginning of the
             fourth week does a heart begin to beat, and then it is two-chambered like that of a fish.
             Not until the end of the fifth week is there evidence of the beginning of formation of
             the cerebral hemispheres, and they are merely hollow bubbles of cells. The possession
             of forty-six chromosomes does not make a cell a person. Most of the cells of your body
             contain these forty-six chromosomes, but that does not make a white corpuscle a person!
             If possession of forty-six chromosomes make some thing a person, then it would seem that
             possession of a different number would make something else. A personality is formed when
             a baby has entered the world. It acts and reacts to situations it is put upon and forms
             its opinions in that manner. It is only then that we can consider it a unique person
             Pro-life activists would argue that the taking of a human life is wrong no matter what
             the circumstances or in which tri-mester it is done. The controversy over abortion has
             avoided the r...