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May 28, 2019

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Some of the debate over whether and when abortion should be legal has centered around the question of when life begins. Here & Now's Robin Young discusses the science with Scott Gilbert, a biologist and emeritus professor of Swarthmore College and the University of Helsinki.

This segment aired on May 28, 2019.

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