“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were
born I consecrated you,” said the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah.
(Jer.1:4, NAS). Obviously, the Lord Himself considered Jeremiah
a human being worthy of being consecrated to the work of God’s
kingdom long before he came out of his mother’s birth canal.
There are numerous passages of scripture that verify that God
believes the being growing inside a mother’s womb is a real
person from the time of its conception. But for many in the
world’s society today, the Biblical references aren’t enough to
convince them of the sanctity of the life of the unborn. They
believe only hard, cold, scientific facts. So what are those
facts? What does medical science and genetic research have to
offer by way of understanding the pivotal question on which
abortion decisions hang: ‘When is it a human being?’ The
following scientific facts clearly chronicle the development of
a fetus in the mother’s womb. The facts concerning viability are
taken from an article in the N