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AAAS Resolution:
Denial of Scientific Basis for Statutory Finding on Beginning of Human Life
Whereas the recently submitted U.S. Senate Bill 158 states that "the Congress finds that present day scientific evidence indicates a significant likelihood that actual human life exists from conception," and
Whereas the statement on the interpretation of scientific evidence, as contained in this bill, misrepresents the ability of science to define the beginning of personhood, and
Whereas science cannot define the beginning of personhood as is stated in S.158,
Therefore be it resolved that the AAAS expresses concern that the Congress should attempt to use science to support a position which is not in the competency of science to affirm or deny. [Adopted by the AAAS Council, January 7, 1982.]
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