"Life Begins at Conception": Department of Health and Human Services Policy Now in Effect

"Our president is fearless when it comes to life and conscience. We're just getting started." 

By Amanda Casanova

Christian Headlines

In its strategic plan that went into effect Oct. 1, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' policy now defines life as beginning at conception. (Photo: Creative Commons-Pixabay)

"HHS accomplishes its mission through programs and initiatives that cover a wide spectrum of activities, serving and protecting Americans at every stage of life, beginning at conception," the plan says.

"A core component of the HHS mission is our dedication to serve all Americans from conception to natural death," the plan says.

The strategic plan is part of what seems like moves by the HHS to support pro-life policies.

In June, an official with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spoke at the National Right to Life convention.

"Our president is fearless when it comes to life and conscience," said Roger Severino, who directs the Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights. "We're just getting started"...

According to Newsweek, the Obama administration plan had identical language to its plan, but the 2018-2022 adds in the phrase “beginning at conception.”

It is language that President Donald Trump has also used in the past.
Earlier this year, Trump declared April as “Child Abuse Prevention Month,” calling children a “blessing from our Creator” and adding that they are “endowed from conception with value, purpose and human dignity.”

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“I Know Life Begins at Conception,” Admits Pro-Choice Activist

National Right to Life

“Here is a startling revelation: I am a mother of two and a woman who earlier in her life had an abortion. I am unapologetically pro-choice. And I know life ‘begins’ at conception …. because I kinda already knew that having a child required, as a first step, the successful integration of a sperm and an egg, or fertilization.

“In other words, ‘life’ begins at conception, if by ‘life,’ we mean the essential starting place of a potential human being. Neither my 16-year-old daughter nor my 13-year-old son would be here if they were not first conceived, if the fertilized eggs had not gone through the process of cell division, successfully implanted in my uterus and developed into healthy embryos, and subsequently gone successfully through the many other phases of development leading to their births.”

[Commenting on a quote from Congressman Paul Ryan, where he said that seeing his unborn baby on the ultrasound screen, convinced him that life began at conception, Jacobson writes]

“I understand that seeing the sonogram of a wanted child is a powerful thing and a connection to the potential person whose birth is much awaited. But if it took Paul Ryan to see a sonogram of his daughter in utero to get him to believe his wife was pregnant and that his daughter’s “life” began with conception, the state of GOP knowledge on sex and biology is even worse than I thought.”

She does not explain how “life begins at conception,” but an unborn baby is only a “potential child.” It is typical pro-choice doublespeak.

Editor’s note. This appeared at clinic quotes and is reposted with permission.

Website: National Right to Life

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