It was an arresting photograph: President George W. Bush holding a baby, and surrounded by children, all of whom began life as “excess” embryos otherwise destined for destruction or possibly for use in stem-cell experimentation. It is hard to imagine a more dramatic demonstration of the fact that human life begins at conception, and that the current debate over (...)
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