‘Wesley J. Smith, who authors a blog about bioethics on the website of First Things, posted an entry on Saturday that was sharply critical of Gingrich’s statements to Tapper.
Smith pointed to an embryology textbook he had quoted in his own book, Consumer’s Guid to a Brave New World.
“If we want to learn the unvarnished scientific truth about whether an early embryo—wherever situated—is really a form of human life, we need only turn to apolitical medical and embryology textbooks,” Smith wrote.
“For example,” wrote Smith, “the authors of The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology (6th Ed.) assert: ‘Human development is a continuous process that begins when an oocyte is fertilized by a sperm...’ The fertilized egg is known as a zygote, which ‘is the beginning of a new human being ...’ More to the point, the authors write: ‘Human development begins at fertilization’ with the joining of the egg and sperm, which ‘form a single cell called a zygote. This highly specialized ... cell marks the beginning of each of us a unique individual.’”
WESLEY J. SMITH combines science with morality, and is one of the most trusted pro-life intellectuals out there!
The eye of Newt will implode, and the “angry old badger will appear for winter.
Is this because our country is finished or is it because the msm has sharpened its game so well that it can easily destroy true Conservatives?
Gingrich had no business converting to Catholicism if he had no intention of following Church teachings. The guy is Clinton redux.
“”Newt Gingrich said he believes that human life does not begin at conception but at “implantation and successful implantation””
I don’t even know know HOW or WHY he made this jump!!! This is really too far out there for me. Do we have to say goodbye to Newt now too? Sure is beginning to look like it.
This video on the development of a baby shows that at 25 days the heart is formed and thereafter starts beating. It seems to me that if the beating heart is stopped deliberately, that is killing.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/11/astounding_video_shows_fetal_development_in_detail.html
He can ask his “very difficult questions” of Lucifer who’s surely waiting for him.
Don’t tell me we’re coming down to Romney. I think Gingrich has jumped the shark. He’s so busy trying to get the “correct” answer that he has no clue about the RIGHT answer.
Right to Life -
Asked in an interview on the CBS News program “Face the Nation,” whether he agreed with Republicans who oppose Federal abortion payments in cases of rape or incest or to protect the life of a mother, Mr. Gingrich said: “No. First of all, I think you should have funding in the case of rape or incest or life of the mother, which is the first step.”
http://rightonlife.org/2011/11/24/pro-life-groups-should-say-no-to-newt-and-pooh-pooh-perry-2/
Self Defense -
“In 1996, Newt Gingrich turned his back on guns and voted for the anti-gun Brady Campaign’s Lautenberg Gun Ban, which strips the Second Amendment rights of citizens involved in misdemeanor domestic violence charges or temporary protection orders –- in some cases for actions as minor as spanking a child or grabbing a spouse’s wrist.(1)”
http://www.nationalgunrights.org/the-inconvenient-truth-about-newt/
Newt does not support the right to life or the means to protect it and is nothing more than a flip-flopping RINO, just like Mitt Romney.
Here’s another poll on the GOP race that just got started, so the numbers are very skewed right now. Everyone can forward it around to anyone planning on voting in the Republican GOP primary or caucus, in an attempt to get a larger and more representative voting base:
http://micropoll.com/t/LEzBOZFlnc
When ever life begins is a fundamental question of the State Goverment. For without an answer there can be no law.
At conception, a human embryo consists of a single cell.
At implantation, about 9 days later, it consists of around 100 cells.
The embryo (blastocyst) is growing, dividing, developing, and starting to differentiate. That is the very definition of life. And, of course, it is human life: because it is the product of human conception, it can't be otherwise.
The only "very difficult question" this raises is why Gingrich couldn't have picked up a basic medical textbook and learned this himself, before spouting his ignorance on the subject in public.