Abortions
Pro Choice supporters who claim it isn't do themselves and their cause a disservice. Of course it's alive. It's a biological mechanism that converts nutrients and oxygen into energy that causes its cells to divide, multiply, and grow. It's alive.
Anti-abortion activists often mistakenly use this fact to support their cause. "Life begins at conception" they claim. And they would be right. The genesis of a new human life begins when the egg with 23 chromosomes joins with a sperm with 23 chromosomes and creates a fertilized cell, called a zygote, with 46 chromosomes. The single-cell zygote contains all the DNA necessary to grow into an independent, conscious human being. It is a potential person.
But being alive does not give the zygote full human rights - including the right not to be aborted during its gestation.
A single-cell ameba also coverts nutrients and oxygen into biological energy that causes its cells to divide, multiply and grow. It also contains a full set of its own DNA. It shares everything in common with a human zygote except that it is not a potential person. Left to grow, it will always be an ameba - never a human person. It is just as alive as the zygote, but we would never defend its human rights based solely on that fact.
And neither can the anti-abortionist, which is why we must answer the following questions as well.
2. Is it human?
Yes. Again, Pro Choice defenders stick their feet in their mouths when they defend abortion by claiming the zygote-embryo-fetus isn't human. It is human. Its DNA is that of a human. Left to grow, it will become a full human person.
And again, anti-abortion activists often mistakenly use this fact to support their cause. They are fond of saying, "an acorn is an oak tree in an early stage of development; likewise, the zygote is a human being in an early stage of development." And they would be right. But having a full set of human DNA does not give the zygote full human rights - including the right not to be aborted during its gestation.
Don't believe me? Here, try this: reach up to your head, grab one strand of hair, and yank it out. Look at the base of the hair. That little blob of tissue at the end is a hair follicle. It also contains a full set of human DNA.
A Critical Analysis of Racism in Canadian Law and the “Unmapping” of the White Settler Society in “When Place Becomes Race” by Sherene H. Razack
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because the right to abort, whatever one thinks of it, is not found in the
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...Furthermore, people claimed that life starts the second after the egg and sperm is fertilized. When something is alive, they deserve the same legal protection as living things. There are already lives behind those embryos and throwing them away is the same as killing them.
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The usual argument for pro choice is that life doesn’t start until the child is born or that no one is sure when life actually starts. Also, it is the women’s choice; her body, her choice. But people really don’t think about how life really does start from conception. Right when the sperm meets the egg, the zygote is formed. The zygote has human DNA in it so it is indeed human at that point (Schwarzwalder). The zygote has genetics that are unique from it’s mother disproving the statement that abortion is between a women and her body (Schwarzwalder). Humans develop very fast starting with the Cardiovascular system. At 22 days, blood is circulated through the zygotes body on its own and its heartbeat can be detected on ultrasound (Schwarzwalder). The child’s eyes/eyelids, nose, mouth and tongue form at six weeks and brain activity can be found at six or seven weeks. At the end of the eighth week the child is known as a fetus with bodily functions and structures. By ten weeks the child is making movements (Schwarzwalder). So, as you can see, abortion is indeed ending a chil...