There is simply no doubt that even the early embryo is a human being. All its genetic coding and all its features are indisputably human. As to being, there is no doubt that it exists, is alive, is self-directed, and is not the same being as the mother and is therefore a unified whole.
— Bernard Nathanson, former abortionist, The Hand of God (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 1996), 131
The Unified Whole of the Prenatal Child
