Abortion, which is sad to say, has become an
accepted practice within today’s society, especially amongst liberals and those
who take part in this new extreme feminist movement. However,
despite its acceptance, there still remains individuals who are willing to
speak out against such an action who risk being labelled as woman haters and
anti-choice by those who stand in its full support.
So, lets get right into it. Is abortion a violation of
the Lord’s command to not murder? In order to answer this question, we must
first understand when life truly starts to begin.
What do the experts say?
When one takes it upon him/herself to
read what is actually written in our science books, then they will surely come
to the conclusion that life does begin at the moment of conception. It is
nothing more or less than a fact that an organism comes into existence after
conception, one that did not exist before such an action took place.
At conception, the woman’s egg or oocyte
comes into fertilization by the male sperm. Immediately after this process takes
place, a new cell is born which is called a zygote or a fertilized egg.
Now, it is the choice of everyone to
believe what they want concerning the identity of this newly formed cell. But, since it is a topic which relates to embryology, let us see what scientists and
embryologists have to say concerning the nature of the fertilized egg and
conception itself.
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Keith L. Moore,In
his textbook,
Developing
Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology he
writes the following:
A zygote [fertilized egg] is the
beginning of a new human being. Human development begins at fertilization, the
process during which a male gamete … unites with a female gamete or oocyte … to
form a single cell called a zygote. This highly specialized, totipotent cell
marks the beginning of each of us as a unique individual.
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In another one of his published
works called: Before We Are Born: Essentials of Embryology he writes:
[The zygote], formed by the union of
an oocyte and a sperm, is the beginning of a new human being
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Dr J.P Greenhill and
E.A Friedman in their work on biology and obstetrics, state
that “This zygote thus formed represents the beginning of a new life”
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Dr E.L Potter writes in the book
Pathology of the fetus and the infant that “every time a sperm cell and ovum
unite, a new BEING is created WHICH IS ALIVE”.
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From Human Embryology &
Teratology (Ronan R. O’Rahilly, Fabiola Muller [New York: Wiley-Liss, 1996], 5-55):
Fertilization is an important
landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct
human organism is thereby formed[.]
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According to the experts, life BEGINS at conception and a zygote or fertilized egg is a LIVING BEING.
The features of an unborn child and their
development according to scientific studies.
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| Unborn baby, 7 weeks old. |
1) 3 weeks after conception, a heartbeat develops and the brain
starts forming.
2) 6 weeks after conception, the baby is capable to hiccup and
brainwaves are found.
3) 9 weeks after conception, the baby is capable to suck its
thumb and over 1000 parts of this child are formed.
4) 12 weeks after conception, the baby possesses over a billion
cells and it develops its taste buds.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) 66 percent of legal abortions
occur within the first eight weeks (after the baby possesses numbers 1 and
2) and 92 percent are performed within the first 13 weeks.(after the
baby possesses numbers 1-4)
If we are viewed as dead when our heart
stops beating, then why are we not viewed as being alive when our heart starts
beating? (3 weeks after conception)
A fertilized egg has its own human DNA.
One of the arguments brought forth by
those who are pro-
choice is that this new organism is still not its own being,
but that it is still something that is just part of the mother. They say that
it is a potential human being, but not a human being in itself.
According to a popular pro-choice
brochure, A Fetus is Not a Baby:
A fetus is not yet a human being. It is
nothing but a clump of cells with the potential to become a human being. It is
‘alive,’ but that is also true of all the other cells in a woman’s body. It has
no life of its own yet. It is not yet a separate life from the life of the
woman in whose uterus it is.
However, when we further examine the
evidence, we see that this argument doesn’t really hold any water. This is because the new
organism, according to scientific studies, possesses its own DNA different from
any other human being on the planet, including its mother and father, with
everything from eye color to sex already chosen for him or her. This does not
make it part of the mother, but it makes it its own being in and of itself. Seeing as it
possesses its own HUMAN DNA, it is beyond controversy that it is indeed a living being.Furthermore, to say that this is not a human is to go completely against the laws of nature. When 2 humans have sexual relations with one another, what else can come from this other than a human? The offspring of two members of a species is always the same type of creature as the parents. For example, you will never see 2 apes come together to give birth to a frog or vice versa. According to the laws of nature, the organism that is produced at conception CANNOT be anything less or more than a human being.
The no rights argument.
Due to the fact that life begins at conception,
many pro-choicers
bring forth yet another
argument. This one says that although a fetus is a human being, it is not a legal person and therefore does not have similar rights to the ones you and I possess, mainly, the right to life. Now
doesn’t this view sound familiar?
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In 1857 the U.S. Supreme Court
decided: ‘A negro of the African race was regarded … as an article of property
… a subordinate and inferior class of being.’
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In 1858, the Virginia Supreme Court
decision declared: ‘In the eyes of the law … the slave is not a person.’
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In 1867, Buckner Payne, Publisher:
‘The Negro is not a human being.’
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Sadly, in our world today, many take
this similar slave view when it comes to unborn children. Whether the child
grows up to be a Hitler or a Malcom X, a Stalin or a hero, everyone is
deserving of the right to life. Ignoring one's right to life leads to the follow statistics:
According to abortionNO.org,
Number of abortions per
year: approximately 42 million
Number of abortions per day: approximately 115,000
Number of abortions per day: approximately 115,000
As humanity fought to recognize the
humanity of the slaves and the African Americans, let us stand up to bring to
recognition the humanity of an unborn child and give them the rights that they so deserve, because unborn children are not potential human
beings, but rather human beings with unlimited potential.
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