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Fertilized Eggs Don't Implant

By Dr. J.C. Wilke

Every time I see the phrase, “the fertilized egg implants in the uterus,” I’m tempted to tear my hair out.

Let’s review our physiology.  Conception (fertilization) consists of the union of sperm and ovum.  The penetration of the ovum by the sperm, the integration and finally the beginning of the first cell division encompasses approximately twenty-four hours.  The medical name for this single cell stage is zygote.

Then cell division occurs and, by the end of the first week, this tiny new human consists of several hundred cells.

During that first week of life, this new human floats freely down the mother’s tube and, when one week old, give or take a day or two, this new living human implants within the nutrient lining of the womb.

Understand what  implants:  not the single cell fertilized egg, but a blastocyst, a developing human that is several hundred cells at this stage.

The fertilized egg does not implant.  When it reaches the womb, it is not a single cell, and if it still was, it could not implant.  Only a one-week-old living human embryo can implant.

Why does the pro-abortion industry continually speak of fertilized eggs implanting?  They say it with something  of a sneer.  It’s much easier to kill, to obliterate, and to destroy a fertilized egg than a living human embryo.

They will continue to use “fertilized egg.”  We have to stop using it.  The proper terminology is “living human embryo.”

- Excerpted from Life Issues Connector, February 2001