Biologists don’t just know what a woman is. They also understand what life is, and this will give the Left the sads – when life begins. To that end, a group of biologists from around the world submitted a brief to the US Supreme Court in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health on “when life begins.”
The Problem.
In granting Mississippi’s Petition For a Writ Of Certiorari in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the Court agreed to consider “[w]hether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.”
The question addresses Roe’s viability standard, which held that fetal viability is the point at which a state’s “important and legitimate” interest in protecting life is compelling and thus constitutionally adequate to overcome a woman’s constitutional right to have an abortion. This viability standard, which the Court ultimately claimed had biological justifications, was established after the Court could not find a consensus of relevant experts who agreed on when a human’s life begins.
It is an essential point of order whether modern science or technology has advanced to a point where relevant experts (biologists) agree on when human life begins. Much the way the Left insists the founders could not have imagined semi-automatic rifles (which is irrelevant to the point of the Second Amendment), has medical science (biology) changed the relevance of how Roe was decided?
These Biologists Say, Yes!
Amici curiae are biologists who work at colleges, universities, and other institutions in 15 countries around the world. On average, they have 10 years of undergraduate and graduate training, they have 27 years of experience working in academia, and overall they have dedicated 37 years to the study of life and to promoting science awareness.
Their expertise bears directly on the question presented in this case. The Court will assess the constitutionality of Roe v. Wade’s viability standard, which was used as a proxy by the Court, in 1973, after it could not determine when a human’s life begins because it could not find a consensus view among experts. Today, amici provide the Court with evidence that shows most biologists affirm fertilization as the leading biological view.
As scientists, the amici curiae are solely committed to providing the Court with the best available science in service of promoting science awareness and combatting science miscommunication on both the fertilization view and the broader discussion on when a human’s life begins. Thus, the amici curiae take no position on the present case and merely offer this brief in hopes that it will be of assistance to the Court as it analyzes the relevant facts of the present case.
The question for these biologists stems from the Roe court’s position that it was “not in a position to speculate” on the “difficult question of when life begins…”
Their brief suggests that this is no longer a matter of debate among biologists.” The fertilization view is widely recognized—in the literature and by biologists—as the leading biological view on when a human’s life begins.”
Thus, amici respectfully offer the Court this brief to provide information on the biological perspective on when a human’s life begins: fertilization, generally, marks the beginning of a sexually reproducing organism’s life and, specifically, marks the beginning of a human’s life, as it is the point at which a human first comes into physical existence as an organism that is biologically classified as a member of the Homo sapiens species.
Having been on both sides of this debate (in my younger years, I was not pro-life), I can say with conviction that the point has always been to avoid the question. The Left made abortion so toxic that no one dared challenge the premise. Most people don’t even know what it is. States have a compelling interest in protecting life. If the natural human life cycle begins at fertilization (I think it does), then states need to save that life.
Dobbs v Jackson asks the Court to examine the viability standard. These biologists are saying there is no question that fertilization is the beginning of the life cycle for all mammals. Period.
If uninterrupted, that cycle continues to natural death.
The Left prefers to deny this to justify the extermination of millions of (primarily) minority babies.
And we’re the racists?
