When Does Life Begin?

Answers with Ken Ham

This is Ken Ham, and our Creation Museum has the world’s most powerful pro-life exhibit.

The question of when life begins is an important one—how you answer can be a matter of life or death. Now, scientifically the answer should be obvious. Life begins at fertilization. At that moment you have a living being. And all the information that makes you is present at fertilization—nothing new is added. So, of course, that tiny being is a life: a person.

And the Bible confirms this truth. God’s Word always treats the unborn child as a person.

Now if every unborn baby—from a tiny, fertilized egg to a newborn—is a person than ending life with an abortion or by discarding embryos is murder.

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