Prenatal Development: Conception through Five Months was written by Francis J. Beckwith. This article is about seeing if abortion is justified or unjustified by starting from conception to the sixth month of pregnancy. Francis says that pregnancy begins at conception. During the first month of pregnancy, the sperm and ovum connect, which is called a zygote. A zygote is a combination of DNA from both the mother and father. The zygote is biologically alive in four criterias: metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction. Francis says that at conception you are a human so abortion is murder. He wrote that “you did not come from a zygote, you once were a zygote; you did not come from an embryo, you once were an embryo; you did not come