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  • Life starts after 14 days, say Anglicans

    11/06/2003 2:43:16 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 383 replies · 702+ views
    The Age (Australia) ^ | November 5, 2003 | Peta Rasdien
    Life does not begin when sperm meets egg, but 14 days after, according to the head of the Anglican Church in Australia. Primate Peter Carnley told the Fertility Society of Australia in Perth yesterday this meant objections to IVF, genetic testing and stem cell research should fall away. Archbishop Carnley said that until it was implanted in a womb lining, a fertilised egg was not a human life but rather a genetically novel kind of cell. The fertilised egg must also pass the point that it could split to become an identical twin, which was at about 14 days. After...