Abortions do not involve babies, they involve the early potential for babies. The beginnings of the human brain and spinal column (if there's a soul that's where it is) don't even BEGIN forming until halfway through the pregnancy. Until then we're about the same as a tadpole. And that, the human brain doesn't begin functioning consciously until AFTER birth.
I've read a book on it by a DOCTOR. You ought to do the same.
Wow AS, a real live doctor?
"Life Begins at Conception,"
Geneticist Dr. Jerome Lejeune
The world's leading geneticist, Dr. Jerome Lejeune of Paris, testified before the Louisiana House Committee on Criminal Justice June 6, 1990, that it is a proven scientific fact that human life begins at conception. He explained, that the DNA molecule is one meter long and is divided into 23 chromosomes. Each DNA molecule is incredibly thin. If the DNA of all the world's 5 billion people were placed together, it would fit on 2 aspirin tablets. Dr. Lejeune said that at the moment of fertilization the 23 chromosomes of the male sperm unite with the 23 chromosomes of the female egg, creating the new human being.
He said the fertilized egg is the most complex cell in existence. It would take more than five sets of the Encyclopedia Britannica to hold the information contained in the fertilized egg. Each fertilized egg is a new human being -- unlike any person who has ever existed before or any who will ever exist again.
As the egg divides, the new cells are highly differentiated. At no time is the human being a blob or a mass of undifferentiated protoplasm; Dr. Lejeune explained that there is an enormous flow of information from generation to generation -- through the DNA. In a human being's first cell the information in the DNA is surrounded by matter. But, he said, there is no such thing as "living matter" -- there is only matter. It is more correct to say that the information in the DNA animates the matter around it. Over time, the amount of matter will increase. The body of an adult human being contains a great deal of matter. But the information in a person's DNA has not changed since the moment of conception.
The sleek muscles on the athlete, the propensity for music of the pianist, and the tiny hands that reach up to grandpa to say, "I love you" -- all of these things were decided at the moment of conception when a unique human being was created. Whether a person is male or female is also decided at that moment.
The tiny boy or girl created is every bit as human at conception as you or I -- only smaller and unable to defend his or her rights. He or she must depend on adults -- you and me -- for protection. |
