{"id":2440245,"date":"2025-05-29T08:03:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-must-codify-that-life-begins-at-conception\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T08:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:08:06","slug":"congress-must-codify-that-life-begins-at-conception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-must-codify-that-life-begins-at-conception\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Must Codify That Life Begins At Conception"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcongress-must-codify-that-life-begins-at-conception%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2440245&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the ongoing struggle surrounding the legal recognition of unborn human life in the United states, notably in the wake of the *Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization* decision that overturned *Roe v. Wade*.It highlights the stalled *Life at Conception Act*, which aims to define human life as beginning at fertilization, thereby granting unborn children personhood under the 14th Amendment. The author emphasizes that the act is not a ban on abortion but seeks to correct misconceptions about when life begins, countering *Roe&#8217;s* legacy that has lead to widespread scientific misunderstanding.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion includes alarming statistics about public perceptions of human life, noting that many young adults believe life starts at birth, contributing to over one million abortions annually in the U.S. The *Life at Conception Act* would establish a legal framework recognizing the unborn as human beings from conception, thus enabling the enactment of protective laws.<\/p>\n<p>The article argues for the necessity of this legislation as a way to affirm biological truths about human advancement and to counter the misinformation stagnating public discourse on abortion. It notes the bill&#8217;s unfortunate lack of progress in Congress and highlights the potential for legislative change amid mixed public opinion on abortion. The author calls for lawmakers to embrace the act as a vital step in promoting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lets-take-this-battle-all-across-the-nation-new-york-governor-kathy-hochul-vows-to-protect-abortion-fight-oppression-of-pro-life-laws\/\" title=\"\u2018Let\u2019s Take This Battle All Across The Nation\u2019: New York Governor Kathy Hochul Vows To Protect ..., Fight \u2018Oppression\u2019 Of Pro-Life Laws\">pro-life agenda<\/a> and correcting the narrative surrounding human life and personhood. <\/p>\n<p>Brooke Stanton,CEO of Contend Projects and co-author of &#8220;When You Became You,&#8221; writes to advocate for the understanding of scientific facts regarding the beginning of life and challenges the denial of these truths in policymaking.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Three years after the&nbsp;<em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women&rsquo;s Health Organization<\/em>&nbsp;decision overturned&nbsp;<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>&nbsp;on June 24, 2022, the right to life &mdash; America&rsquo;s foundational principle &mdash; remains under siege. The stalled Life at Conception Act&nbsp;in the 119th Congress epitomizes this crisis and underscores that, despite&nbsp;<em>Dobbs<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Roe<\/em>&rsquo;s dehumanizing legacy&nbsp;continues,&nbsp;perpetuating&nbsp;scientific ignorance about when a human being begins to exist.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/722\/actions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Life at Conception Act<\/a>, reintroduced this session by Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., with 76 co-sponsors, would codify the scientific truth&nbsp;about when a&nbsp;human life&nbsp;starts, defining the unborn as &ldquo;persons&rdquo; under the 14th Amendment. This definition would be a game-changer: you could even describe it as a vital reset for humankind. The act does not ban abortion or dictate policy &mdash; that would require separate legislation &mdash; but corrects a grave systemic error akin to the fantasies of flat-earthers.<\/p>\n<p>For over 50 years,&nbsp;<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>&nbsp;fueled a deadly fiction: that the unborn are not fully human. It perpetuated the lie that an unborn child is merely a &ldquo;bunch of cells,&rdquo; a &ldquo;parasite,&rdquo; a &ldquo;pre-person,&rdquo; or a &ldquo;potential human being,&rdquo; disposable for any reason until birth. <em>Dobbs<\/em>&nbsp;overturned&nbsp;<em>Roe<\/em>&nbsp;and affirmed the humanity of the human embryo and fetus but left constitutional protections unresolved, allowing&nbsp;<em>Roe<\/em>&rsquo;s preposterous notion that the unborn are less than fully human persons to fester.<\/p>\n<p>This&nbsp;dehumanizing mindset is rampant. Shockingly, nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.morningconsult.com\/wp-uploads\/2019\/06\/190555_crosstabs_ABORTION_Adults_v3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">40 percent<\/a> of young adults believe&nbsp;a&nbsp;human life begins at birth,&nbsp;and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kofc.org\/un\/en\/resources\/communications\/abortion-limits-favored.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most people<\/a> are&nbsp;unaware that this is a strictly scientific matter.<\/p>\n<p>The cost is stark.&nbsp;In 2024, more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/fact-sheet\/induced-abortion-united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one million<\/a> abortions occurred in the United States. Planned Parenthood, the nation&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-blue-state-claw-back\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Blue State Claw Back\">largest abortion provider<\/a>, performed a record <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/uploads\/filer_public\/21\/02\/2102bd3b-92cc-405a-8abd-0cf144a88846\/2024-ppfa-annualreport-c3-digital.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">402,230<\/a> abortions and received nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/uploads\/filer_public\/21\/02\/2102bd3b-92cc-405a-8abd-0cf144a88846\/2024-ppfa-annualreport-c3-digital.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$800 million<\/a> in taxpayer funding. Chemical abortions, which account for two-thirds of all abortions today, harm women (by sepsis, infection, and hemorrhaging) at a <a href=\"https:\/\/eppc.org\/stop-harming-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rate<\/a> 22 times higher than that claimed by the Food and Drug Administration.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2024, 10 states <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/2024\/11\/abortion-rights-state-ballot-measures-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voted<\/a> on ballot measures to enshrine&nbsp;abortion, treating the destruction of unborn children&nbsp;as&nbsp;on par with&nbsp;a new sales tax or retirement law. After decades of pro-abortion indoctrination, backed by hundreds of millions of dollars in misinformation campaigns, seven measures passed.<\/p>\n<p>The objective, internationally acknowledged, empirical facts of human embryology are clear. The 23 Carnegie Stages of Human Embryonic Development document that, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/with-abortion-provider-appreciation-day-democrats-openly-celebrate-executioners\/\" title=\"With \u2018... Provider Appreciation Day,\u2019 Democrats Openly Celebrate Executioners\">human sexual reproduction<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalmuseum.health.mil\/assets\/documents\/collections\/hdac\/stage01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fertilization<\/a> &mdash; not birth &mdash; marks the transition from two cells (sperm and oocyte) to a new, whole, living, individual human being. Moreover, human embryology establishes that &ldquo;personhood&rdquo; is inherent in fertilization, not a negotiable&nbsp;philosophical construct. Human reproduction&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ehd.org\/virtual-human-embryo\/intro.php?stage=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">initiates<\/a> the continuum of human life:&nbsp;the new human being&nbsp;develops&nbsp;as&nbsp;<em>the same&nbsp;human<\/em>&nbsp;throughout&nbsp;the embryonic period, fetal period, and&nbsp;then after birth. Simply put, the human being and the person are inseparable.<\/p>\n<p>The Life at Conception Act&nbsp;would&nbsp;correct abortion&rsquo;s&nbsp;false, poisonous&nbsp;view&nbsp;of humankind&nbsp;by asserting the biological reality that a human being is a person from the start (termed &ldquo;conception&rdquo; for the act&rsquo;s purposes). It states: &ldquo;Congress hereby declares that the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being.&rdquo; It defines &ldquo;human being&rdquo; and &ldquo;human person&rdquo; to include &ldquo;each and every member of the species&nbsp;homo sapiens&nbsp;at all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization, cloning, or other moment at which an individual member of the human species comes into being.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>By affirming personhood for the unborn, the Life at Conception Act would&nbsp;establish&nbsp;a transformative legal framework. This pivotal recognition would empower lawmakers to enact laws upholding the unborn child&rsquo;s right to life. (Even piecemeal legislative efforts, responsive to political realities and addressing the 14th Amendment&rsquo;s guarantees, hinge on this new standard.) Ultimately, the Act would provide a critical foundation to counter&nbsp;<em>Roe<\/em>&rsquo;s dehumanizing legacy and serve as a monumental&nbsp;step&nbsp;in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-shocked-that-pro-lifers-are-serious-about-protecting-babies\/\" title=\"NYT Shocked That Pro-Lifers Are Serious About Protecting Babies\">pro-life movement&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s &ldquo;one-step-at-a-time&rdquo; strategy.<\/p>\n<p>In&nbsp;our post-<em>Dobbs<\/em>&nbsp;era of productive disruption, in which biological realism is shaping U.S. policy,&nbsp;Congress has an unprecedented opportunity to advance this vital bill &mdash; not to settle related debates (e.g., about abortion and IVF), but to anchor them in reality and uphold America&rsquo;s core values. Instead, the Life at Conception Act&nbsp;languishes as an inconvenient truth, stalled in the House Judiciary Committee with no hearings, markup, or vote, a four percent chance of advancing, and no Senate companion bill.<\/p>\n<p>Critics, aware of upcoming elections and the popularity of&nbsp;<em>Roe<\/em>&rsquo;s false science among voters, exacerbate the issue, using fear tactics (e.g., claiming the Act would ban abortion or IVF) to ensure the bill&rsquo;s toxic status and defeat, while threatening pro-life lawmakers with electoral defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers have a duty rooted in the Declaration of Independence&rsquo;s &ldquo;right to life&rdquo;&nbsp;to protect all human beings.&nbsp;Plus, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >public opinion isn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t unanimously pro-abortion, yet. Voters rejected abortion ballot measures in Florida, Nebraska, and South Dakota, and approved a pro-life measure in Nebraska. And&nbsp;polls show&nbsp;most Americans support some legal limits on abortion, signaling a window for bold action.<\/p>\n<p>The time is ripe for legislation grounded in biological truth. As House Speaker Mike Johnson noted in a different context, &ldquo;A man is a man, and a woman is a woman,&rdquo; emphasizing biological reality in policy. Similarly, the fact that all human beings are human persons should be the starting point for public policies, and laws.<\/p>\n<p>Advancing the Life at Conception Act isn&rsquo;t about ending abortion today. It&rsquo;s about ending science denial now. The act is a clarion call for Congress to affirm the empirical truth&nbsp;about when a human being begins to exist, aligning law with reason and biology.&nbsp;Until the U.S. explicitly rejects abortion&rsquo;s distorted vision&nbsp;of humanity, the knowledge gap about humankind will widen, and public opinion will drift further from reality. Anything less than advancing this bill is a vote for confusion over clarity, politics over principle.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brooke Stanton is the co-author of &#8220;When You Became You&#8221; and the chief executive officer of Contend Projects, a registered 501(c)(3) education organization spreading the basic, accurate scientific facts about when a human life starts and the biological science of human embryology.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years post-Dobbs, the right to life is still threatened<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1486,"featured_media":2440246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pexels-valeriia-svietlova-215592657-11837653.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4402,4762,56108,37440,40197],"class_list":["post-2440245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-congress","tag-legislation","tag-lifeatconception","tag-prolife","tag-reproductiverights"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pexels-valeriia-svietlova-215592657-11837653.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440254,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440245\/revisions\/2440254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2440246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}