What Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Galea said, as reported in the Sunday Times of Malta (February 10), cannot be further than the truth.
He mentions that it is not the number of cells that determines whether it is a human life or not while still in the womb. I have very often heard Adrian Delia, leader of the Opposition, when speaking about the protection of life while still in the womb as though life begins when still only eight cells, which is mistaken.
It is the fusion of the sperm and ovum that form the first cell, aka zygote, which undergoes cell division and growth to form an embryo.
This means that we all start life from a single zygote cell with oxygen and food supplied from the uterus. All our tissues and organs are produced by cell division from this one cell. It is from the zygote that require which cells are to be blue or black eyes, height, whether tall or short. It is evident that life begins when the sperm and ovum fuse.