Five or so weeks after conception: This is when Christians should view a new human life as a “person,” according the Kyle Fedler, Chair of the Religion Department at Ashland University in Ohio.

Fedler made his case on January 17 in the second of what will be nine presentations on “The Moral Status of the Human Fetus,” at Loma Linda University. This is the 2008 Jack W. Provonsha Lectures Series. It is organized by LLU’s Center for Christian Bioethics. Mark Carr is the director and Dawn Gordon is the manager.