Many state legislatures are seriously considering human embryos at the earliest stages of development for legal personhood. Total abortion bans that consider humans to have full rights from the moment ...

Some of the old distractions concerning the abortion debate have been circulating, including in letters to the editor in the News Tribune (Reader's View: "Are pro-life zealots really control freaks?" ...

After repeated, recent statements by U.S. President Joe Biden that he does not believe human life begins at the moment of conception, or characterizing such a belief as a matter of faith, scientists ...

The majority of fertilized eggs die and are resorbed into the body. ZEISS Microscopy/Flickr, CC BY-SA As an evolutionary biologist whose career has focused on how embryos develop in a wide variety of ...

This complicated but fundamental question has enormous ethical, legal, medical, philosophical, religious and scientific overtones. An article in The Journal of the Association of Basic Medical ...