Living Proof: How Children's Dramatic Stories
Show Life Begins at Fertilization
WASHINGTON, July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- A press conference will
take place on Monday, July 16th on Capitol Hill to dramatically
emphasize the enduring truth that human life begins at fertilization
-not merely at implantation. Two families will come forward whose
children were conceived outside their mothers' wombs and legally
adopted while in their embryonic stage, before implantation. These
children-once tiny blastocysts-and their stories illuminate the great
debate currently underway in our country about experimenting on
embryonic human beings.
WHAT:
Press conference bringing forward parents who have born
and legally adopted children conceived in vitro.
WHO:
* Mr. John and Mrs. Lucinda Borden and their 9-month old sons,
Luke and Mark, from Falbrook, Calif.
* Mrs. Marlene Strege, with her husband and 28-month old
daughter, Hannah, from Fontana, Calif.
* Joann Davidson, Program Director of Snowflakes Embryo
Adoption Program
* Ken Connor, President, Family Research Council,
Washington, D.C.
* Samuel B. Casey, Executive Director & CEO, Christian Legal
Society
* Thomas G. Hungar, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, co-counsel
with Human Life Advocates
WHEN:
Monday, July 16th at 10:00 a.m.
WHERE:
House Triangle at the U.S. Capitol
"Nothing less than life itself is at stake in this raging controversy,"
Family Research Council President Ken Connor said. "This issue is
about small human beings, but it is by no means a small issue.
July 16th is, significantly, the anniversary of the first atomic
explosions at Alamogordo, New Mexico in 1945. Just as that historic
event cast its looming shadow over the survival of mankind-and
continues to challenge us to this day-so the decisions to be made
about embryonic human life are laden with eternal significance.
No one thought then that atomic weapons were insignificant
because they were based on the tiniest particles of matter.
Everyone recognized then and we recognize now that decisions
about the smallest particles can have universal importance.
"So it is in this debate. We are close to a decision that will
determine whether human beings may be brought into being
for the use of others and then killed or whether human life is sacred
and must be defended even at -- and especially at -- its earliest
stages. No question exists here of a mother's rights. These decisions
affect human life itself."
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SOURCE Family Research Council
Web Site: http://www.frc.org
SOURCE: PRNewswire
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