A Caveman’s View on Abortion

This Caveman’s view on abortion is not based on some religious totalitarian rhetoric. Instead, on SCIENCE FACTS.  My wife is pro choice  moderate… as she feels it is a  fight to deny women the right to control their own fertility. I am just a caveman but in the last few weeks I have been doing a lot of reading and studying on the issue, this by no means makes me an expert… BUT these are my thoughts on the matter anyway: 

Maybe the right wing Christian conservatives are just trying to control and fight to deny these women the right to control their own fertility, BUT THAT IS NOT THE ISSUE.  I too  am sick of the church and their totalitarian control in our nation, and I hope someday our country as a whole will recognize not only the right of individuals to hold their own religious views, but also the rights of those to have freedom from religion as well! 

The real issue here is the rights of the mother to be, more important than the rights of a child developing in her womb?  Why should she have a choice and the child who has no voice yet suffer… deprivation of life?

 

 

 

Ever heard of embryology? Basically, it  is the study of the development of an embryo. If you examine pro-choice arguments for abortion, you will find the proponents using such terms as “tissue” and “grams of material” (a weight). What they do not like to discuss is what that “tissue” consists of. In fact, the preborn human fetus is genetically a fully human being at the point of conception.

 

Contrary to what many non-scientists believe, human beings are not constructed in the womb – they develop. In fact, all the major organ systems are initiated within the first few weeks after conception. The process of embryonic development is a continuous process, with no obvious point at which the fetus magically becomes a “person.” In fact, the development process continues well after birth, including many characteristics that determine our personality or personhood. What are the stages in human embryonic development? Science tells us that the heart of the human fetus begins to form 18 days after conception.  There is a measurable heart beat 21-24 days after conception. This is only 7-10 days after a women would expect to begin her menses. Since most women have cycles that can vary by this amount, they do not discover they are pregnant until after this point. Therefore, all abortions stop a beating heart, even “early” abortions. However, most abortions do not occur until 4-6 weeks after the fetus begins to form. The human brain begins to form on day 23 is formed enough to produce brain waves by 6 weeks, which means that most abortions destroy a functioning human brain.

The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology(pp 2-18): “Zygote: this cell results from the union of an oocyte and a sperm. A zygote is the beginning of a new human being (i.e., an embryo). Human development begins at fertilization, the process during which a male gamete or sperm … 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.”

Essentials of Human Embryology(pp. 1-17): “In this text, we begin our description of the developing human with the formation and differentiation of the male and female sex cells or gametes, which will unite at fertilization to initiate the embryonic development of a new individual. … Fertilization takes place in the oviduct … resulting in the formation of a zygote containing a single diploid nucleus. Embryonic development is considered to begin at this point… This moment of zygote formation may be taken as the beginning or zero time point of embryonic development.”

Human Embryology & Teratology(pp. 5-55): “Fertilization is an important landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed… Fertilization is the procession of events that begins when a spermatozoon makes contact with a secondary oocyte or its investments…  The zygote … is a unicellular embryo… “The ill-defined and inaccurate term pre-embryo, which includes the embryonic disc, is said either to end with the appearance of the primitive streak or … to include neurulation. The term is not used in this book.” (p. 55).”

In Conclusion: The science of embryology tells us that human beings develop rapidly after fertilization of the egg. In fact, since the heart of the fetus begins to beat by 24 days, virtually all abortions (other than “emergency contraception”) stop a beating heart. In fact, since most abortion occur between 4-6 weeks, they also destroy a functioning brain. Even modern embryology textbooks agree that human life begins at conception. Since abortion ends human life, one must ask the question whether abortion is justifiable homicide or murder

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Material for this article came from the following web sites:   http://steveskojec.com/2008/09/09/chaput-makes-abortion-simple-enough-for-a-liberal-to-understand/#comment-3481  – I have a lot of respect for Steve Kojec, even though I am an atheist and but just a caveman.

  http://www.usnews.com/blogs/erbe/2008/12/4/abortion-myth-about-depression-falls-before-science.html   http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/3991/  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,169295,00.html    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryology  http://www.godandscience.org/doctrine/scienceabortion.html

 

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