For those of you who are pro-choice or pro-abortion, do you really think that the fetus isn't a living, breathing being? Or do you believe that it's truly okay to kill a baby, a living human being? If it's the latter, you are sick. And if it's the former, I guess you're just plain uninformed, or choose to deny the fact that from the day of conception all human chromosomes are present and a unique human life begins.
Did you know...
Day 22 – The baby’s heart begins to beat with the child’s own blood – often a different blood type than the mother.
Week 6 – At this stage, brain waves can be detected. The child’s mouth and lips are present and fingers are forming.
Week 8 – At this stage, every organ is in place. Bones and unique fingerprints begin to form.
Week 17 – The baby can now have dream (REM) sleep.
The unborn differ from the newborn in four ways that have disqualified them as persons (according to some pro-abortion advocates).
1. Size or Physical Appearance – Do humans lose value when they don’t look right? Does size equal value? Men are generally larger than women. Does that mean men are more human than women? Shaquille O’Neil is larger than Hillary Clinton. Does that mean Hillary Clinton is less human than Shaq? The term used to describe the destruction of groups of people based on their physical appearance is ethnic cleansing or genocide. But human value transcends physical appearance. Therefore, “not looking right” cannot disqualify a human being from being valuable.
2. Level of Development – Is a person’s value defined by his abilities, by what he can or can’t do? Do we forfeit our rights as human persons because we don’t have the capabilities others have? Do stronger, more capable, more intelligent people have more rights than others? Do human beings become disposable simply because at their level of development they are helpless, defenseless, and dependent? Human value transcends abilities or the lack of abilities. Therefore, missing abilities cannot disqualify human value.
3. Environment – Do humans forfeit their worth when they change locations? Baby Rachel was born prematurely at 24 weeks. She weighed only 1 lb. 9 oz., but dropped to just under 1 lb. soon after. She was so small she could rest in the palm of her daddy’s hand. She was a tiny, living, person. Heroic measures were taken to save her life. If a doctor had killed Rachel we would have recoiled in horror. However, if this same little girl was inches away from the outside world, resting inside her mother’s womb, she could be legally killed by abortion. Clearly, one’s environment can’t be the deciding factor. Changing locations is morally trivial. Environment has no bearing on who we are.
4. Degree of Dependency – Is human value determined by our degree of dependency on others? The unborn’s dependency on his mother for sustenance is irrelevant to the baby’s value. No baby is “viable” if degree of dependency matters. All babies need their mothers for feeding whether via blood (an umbilical cord), breast, or bottle. Human beings may be dependent on others for their survival, but they aren’t dependent on others for their value. All physically dependent people are at risk if degree of dependency determines their value – those dependent on kidney machines, pacemakers, and insulin would have to be declared non-persons. Dependency does not determine worth.
Just because this living being is growing inside of another person, doesn't give that person the right to murder him/her. Wishful thinking may lead us to believe that a fetus isn't living, and just because of the four reasons above doesn't qualify as a human being. I beg to differ.
~Sarah
