"Of the 5,577 biologists who responded to a survey he sent out, 96 percent affirmed that life begins at fertilization.
"It was the reporting of this view — that human zygotes, embryos, and fetuses are biological humans — that created such a strong backlash. It was not unexpected, as the finding provides fodder for conservative opponents of Roe v. Wade , the 1973 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court suggested there was no consensus on 'the difficult question of when life begins' and that 'the judiciary, at this point in the development of man's knowledge, [was] not in a position to speculate as to the answer,'" Jacobs wrote..."