Contend Projects is a secular, nonpartisan, science education nonprofit with the mission to spread accurate information and awareness about the biological science of human embryology and when a human being begins to exist. We work to make the essential scientific facts easily accessible and to educate people in a simple and positive way, as a matter of basic education and to empower informed decisions.
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Dianne N. Irving, M.A., Ph.D.
Contend is elevating BASIC SCIENCE EDUCATION because we should all know when a human being normally begins
to exist,
and also because if you do not know, you cannot possibly make fully INFORMED CHOICES about
your health.
” To begin with, scientifically something very radical occurs between the processes of gametogenesis and fertilization – the change from a simple part of one human being (i.e., a sperm) and a simple part of another human being (i.e., an oocyte – usually referred to as an “ovum” or “egg”), which simply possess “human life”, to a new, genetically unique, newly existing, individual, whole living human being (a single-cell embryonic human organism). That is, upon fertilization, parts of human beings have actually been transformed into something very different from what they were before; they have been changed into a single, whole human being. During the process of fertilization, the sperm and the oocyte cease to exist as such, and a new human being is produced. “
Dianne N. Irving, M.A., Ph.D.
” Contend Projects is making the basic science about when a human being begins to exist and the continuum of
human
life accessible for everyone. Now it’s time for everyone to stand up for this science. “
David Prentice, Ph.D.