A World-Renowned University Suppressed Important Abortion Research
The results of Jacobs' global survey of academic biologists was astonishing in its consensus: "Overall, 95% of all biologists affirmed the biological view that a human's life begins at fertilization (5212 out of 5502)." Again, the overwhelming nature of this consensus must be emphasized: The biologically human nature of the fertilized zygote is one of two necessary preconditions for the pro-life policy argument, and Jacobs' research — which had a global reach — forecloses any question as to the biological inquiry. Pro-choicers who arrive at a different "scientific" conclusion — and Jacobs' research indicates that only 23% of pro-choicers recognize the fetus as a biological human being throughout the entire gestational continuum — ought to re-evaluate, accordingly. And as Jacobs told me, his scholarly research should galvanize lawmakers to "stop debating whether a fetus is a human and start debating...