moment of conception
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmomentandconception
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moment
noun
uk/ˈməʊ.mənt/us/ˈmoʊ.mənt/
a very short period ...
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conception
noun
uk/kənˈsep.ʃən/us/kənˈsep.ʃən/
an idea of what something or someone is like, or a basic understanding of a situation or ...
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(Definition ofmomentandconceptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Furthermore, as we will see, themomentofconceptionis not a neutral event in people's lives and can have a significant effect on subsequent health outcomes.
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Who knows whether life begins at themomentofconception?
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A regulation whose objective is to protect health cannot contradict itself and attack life, the supreme good of the individual from themomentofconception.
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At that verymomentofconception, a new individual is created.
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It may be argued that from themomentofconceptionthere is a person, but even that need not be argued.
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Once again, the committee repeats that a human being becomes one at themomentofconception, and allows science to work only with dead embryos.
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Those who oppose research believe that life starts at themomentofconception, when the sperm fuses with the egg.
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It seems that it is something that parents will have to consider in the future at themomentofconception.
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I believe that life must be accepted as having begun and should be honoured even from the verymomentofconception.
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Until quite recently, medical dictionaries and textbooks made it plain that human life began at themomentofconception, but no longer.
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There is no consensus that viability is certain at 26 weeks, for the simple reason that the exactmomentofconceptionis never known.
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It is significant that respect for human life applies from themomentofconception.
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It is a unique human being from themomentofconception, not from 14 days or the appearance of the primitive streak.
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For that baby, life started in some form at themomentofconception.
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There is an unbroken time progression and an unbroken ontological process from themomentofconceptionto the moment of death.
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It is at themomentofconceptionwhat it will be at 14 days, at birth, at maturity and at death.
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The biological mistake in the ascription of full value from themomentofconceptionis the confusion between development and growth.
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From themomentofconceptionthe embryo is a genetically unique, living, individual human being.
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We believe in an exalted idea of the dignity of man, whoever he may be, without discrimination, from themomentofconceptionto his natural death.
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