Senate bill S-159 and its companion HR-616 in the House of Representatives, both introduced in January, 2019, are known collectively as the “Life at Conception Act” and attempt to codify into law the simple fact that life begins at conception. Both continue to languish without passage as of this date.
The absurdity of 535 congresspeople with little or no scientific knowledge debating whether to legislatively acknowledge a biological fact is an embarrassment to society and should be a call to action to the scientific community. In their debates on the Life at Conception Act, virtually all Democrats assert their belief that life begins at some time other than conception. Most Republicans, while rightly holding the conviction that life begins at conception, wrongly relegate it to nothing more than a belief. While the conflict is largely over whether the 14th Amendment’s language prohibiting states from “depriv[ing] any person of life” will be engaged to overturn abortion, nevertheless, it is shameful that any member of Congress should be ignorant of the fact that life begins at conception.
AAGLE does not take any position of advocacy, pro or con, on the legality of abortion.