Some of the world’s most prominent scientists and physicians testified to a U. S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the question of when [human] life begins. Dr. Alfred M. Bongioanni, professor of pediatrics and obstetrics at the University of Pennsylvania, stated, “I have learned from my earliest medical education that human life begins at the time of conception… I submit that human life is present throughout this entire sequence, from conception to adulthood, and that any interruption at any point throughout this time constitutes a termination of human life…I am no more prepared to say that these early stages [of development in the womb] represent an incomplete human being than I would say that the child prior to the dramatic effects of puberty…is not a human being. This is human life at every stage.”
Dr. Jerome LeJeune, professor of genetics at the University of Descartes in Paris , was the discoverer of the chromosome pattern of Downs syndrome. Dr. LeJeune testified, “after fertilization has taken place a new human being has come into being.” He stated that this “is no longer a matter of taste or opinion,” and “not a metaphysical contention, it is plain experimental evidence.” He added, “Each individual has a very neat beginning, at conception.”
Professor Hymie Gordon, Mayo Clinic; Professor Micheline Matthews-Roth, Harvard University Medical School; Dr. Watson A. Bowes, University of Colorado Medical School were among those testifying that life begins at conception.
Ashley Montague, a geneticist and professor at Harvard and Rutgers , is unsympathetic to the pro-life cause. Nevertheless, he affirms unequivocally, “The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.”
Pro-abortionists were asked to provide people to testify before the subcommittee, but all they could provide was one person who insisted that no one knew when life began. Even if this were the case, then logically it would still be probable that abortion was the termination of human life (If you don’t know when human life begins then you can be aborting a human life). However, this point of view often preferred by pro-abortionists is NOT the view of medical science as the above shows.
There can be no question that it is the official view of medical science, as attested before a Judiciary Subcommittee that human life begins at conception. This being the case, there is no question that abortion is a denial of the right to life. It is this right to life that defines all other human rights and freedoms, for without the right to life other human rights and freedoms can have no meaning. This is not just my point of view, so I recently discovered, it was originally stated by one Abraham Lincoln. Now that took my quite by surprise!
Attempts to justify abortion are very often selfish in nature or depend heavily on excuses, such as what about a rape victim? First of all, abortion has a dramatic impact on a woman and can be an even worse experience than rape. Secondly, what about adoption? Any unwanted child can have parents who do want it and will love and care for it. Abortion cannot be reversed, but adoption gives a child a future (ask my wife). Finally, in this matter and other specific examples of this nature, a particular principle cannot be used to justify the general nature of abortion – you cannot argue from the particular to the general. Situation ethics doesn’t work.
We have seen the pro-abortion mentality before in Hitler’s Germany
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