Pro Life Vs Pro Choice
Abortion Debate - Pro-Life Stance In Roman times, abortion and the destruction of unwanted children was permissible, but as out civilization has aged, it seemsthat such acts were no longer acceptable by rational human beings, so that in 1948, Canada along with most other nations in the world signed a declaration of the United Nations promising every human being theright to life. The World Medical Association meeting in Geneve at thesame time, stated that the utmost respect for human life was to befrom the moment of conception. This declaration was re-affirmed whenthe World Medical Association met in Oslo in 1970. Should we gobackwards in our concern for the life of an individual human being?
The unborn human is still a human life and not all the wishfulthinking of those advocating repeal of abortion laws, can alter this.Those of us who would seek to protect the human who is still to smallto cry aloud for it's own protection, have been accused of having a19th Century approach to life in the last third of the 20th Century.But who in reality is using arguments of a bygone Century? It is anincontrovertible fact of biological science - Make no Mistake - thatfrom the moment of conception, a new human life has been created.
Only those who allow their emotional passion to overide theirknowledge, can deny it: only those who are irrational or ignorantof science, doubt that when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum anew human being is created. A new human being who carries genes in its cells that make that human being uniquely different from any and otherhuman being and yet, undeniably a member, as we all are, of the greathuman family. All the fetus needs to grow into a babe, a child, an oldman, is time, nutrition and a suitable environment. It is determinedat that very moment of conception whether the baby will be a boy or agirl; which of his parents he will look like; what blood type he willhave. His whole heritage is forever fixed. Look...
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