 Hind stated, "As a lawyer, I can tell the Committee that there is no specific definition of when life begins.Voting for,"a an amendment in the Embryo Research Bill introduced by the Government following the failure of his own Private Members Bill , he believed, "will lay down a definition of where we the law-makers, supported by scientific evidence, believe that life begins" He continued, "Once that has been laid down, it can be followed by a series of protections for the unborn child.I do not accept that the fertilised embryo is, for the first 14 days, merely a cluster of undifferentiated cells.