[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Smith gets Biology 101 wrong; Fight BHO on Conscience Rights!; more....
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*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 29 Mar 2009 AD
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http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2009/03/biologically-new-human-life-begins-when.html
*Smoke and Mirrors (Wesley Smith Blog)*
*Irving Comments on Wesley's article, "Biologically, A New Human Life
Begins /When Fertilization is Complete/" (Friday, March 20, 2009)*
At March 27, 2009
<http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2009/03/biologically-new-human-life-begins-when.html#c7494979734593255055>,
Blogger Wesley J. Smith
<http://www.blogger.com/profile/00087063614354714652> said...
I was e-mailed the following comment by Dianne Irving, Ph.D, who
asked me to post as a comment to this thread:
Wesley -- Dianne here. Thank you for this excellent presentation.
Superb that you point out that there is no such thing as a
"pre-embryo" -- the term was /formally rejected/ by the
international /Nomina Embryologica Committee /many years ago as
totally unscientific and misleading because the embryo itself begins
to exist at fertilization. All human embryology textbooks agree
with that. My concern is with your statement that the embryo
"begins at the /end/ of the process of fertilization" with the
formation of the "zygote", as that is scientifically incorrect and
contradicts the international nomenclature, as well as the /Carnegie
Stages of Early Human Embryonic Development/ (available online at:
http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/collections/hdac/stage1.pdf). The
Carnegie Stages (23 of them) were founded in 1942 (not new!), and
built on the scientific facts documented as early as 1883 with
Wilhem His's 3-volume tome on human embryology. Thus we have known
for over a hundred years now that human beings begin to exist "at
fertilization" -- meaning, /at the beginning/ of the process of
fertilization. Quoting directly from the international /Carnegie
Stages/:
""Embryonic life commences with fertilization, and hence /the
beginning of that process /may be taken as 'the point de depart' of
stage 1. .../ //Fertilization/, which normally takes place in the
uterine (fallopian) tube, is the procession of events that begins
when a spermatozoon mature sperm makes contact with an oocyte and
ends with the intermingling of maternal- and paternal-derived
chromosomes at metaphase of the first mitotic (cell) division of the
zygote. *Stage One of the /_embryo_/ thus /includes/: (a) the
/penetrated oocyte /- the term used once a haploid spermatozoon has
penetrated the diploid oocyte (causing the diploid oocyte to half
its number of chromosomes to 23) and, strictly, after the individual
plasma membranes of the sperm and of the oocyte have become one; (b)
the /ootid/, characterized by the presence of the male and female
haploid pronuclei (each pronuclei containing 23 chromosomes); and
(c) the /zygote/, which characterizes the last phase of
fertilization.* " Thus the "zygote" phase during the process of
fertilization is /not/ when a human being begins to exist, but
rather the "penetrated oocyte" phase is (formed at the beginning of
the process of fertilization). True, some textbooks write less
sophisticated accounts because they are written for students, and
thus tend to generalize. But all professional human embryology
textbooks are required to go by the /Carnegie Stages/, which are
represented in those same texts by the use of numerical superscripts
that correspond with the relevant /Carnegie Stage/.
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**[PFLI NOTE: PAY ATTENTION HERE--->] The reason this is important
is that a great deal of unethical human cloning and human genetic
engineering research is performed _/before/_ the formation of the
zygote -- and thus is literally destructive human _/embryo/_
research*.*
Hope this helps.
Dr. Dianne N. Irving, M.A., Ph.D.
[see also my analysis of Maureen Condic's White Paper, "When does human
life begin?"; Irving, "Condic's 'Pre-Zygote' Error in 'When Does Human
Life Begin?'", at:
http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/irv/irv_134maureencondic1.html ]
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