James Lankford: “Science would say that a child's life begins at conception.”

“We still haven't been able to resolve that issue. Now, science has resolved that issue. But we in American values and culture, we have not. Science would say that a child's life begins at conception. That's the moment that the DNA is different than the mom's DNA. Every single cell in the mom's body has the same DNA, except for those cells. Those cells are different.” (01:33–01:38)

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