LIFE ISSUES Who am I? Baby’s first memoir*

As News Weekly went to press, Rachel Carling-Jenkins’ Infant Viability Bill was due to be debated in the Victorian Parliament. Leon Voesenek offers a glimpse at who it is all about. My life began in Mum’s Fallopian tube. Here Dad’s sperm and Mum’s egg met and fused resulting in a one-celled being called zygote, with the 46 chromosomes typical of each cell of the human body. There I was, a unique new individual, having received 23 chromosomes from Mum and 23 from D…

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