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Abortion In Roman times, abortion and the destruction of unwanted children
was permissible, but as out civilization has aged, it seems that 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 the right to life. The World Medical Association
meeting in Geneve at the same time, stated that the utmost respect for human
life was to be from the moment of conception. This declaration was re-affirmed
when the World Medical Association met in Oslo in 1970.
Should we go backwards
in our concern for the life of an individual human being? The unborn human is
still a human life and not all the wishful thinking of those advocating repeal
of abortion laws, can alter this. Those of us who would seek to protect the
human who is still to small to cry aloud for it's own protection, have been
accused of having a 19th 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 an
incontrovertible fact of biological science - Make no Mistake - that from the
moment of conception, a new human life has been created. Only those who allow
their emotional passion to overide their knowledge, can deny it: only those who
are irrational or ignorant of science, doubt that when a human sperm fertilizes
a human ovum a new human being is created.
A new human being who carries genes in its cells that make that human being
uniquely different from any and other human being and yet, undeniably a member,
as we all are, of the great human family. All the fetus needs to grow into a
babe, a child, an old man, is time, nutrition and a suitable environment. It is
determined at that very moment of conception whether the baby will be a boy or a
girl; which of his parents he will look like; what blood type he will have. His
whole heritage is forever fixed. Look at a human being 8 weeks after conception
and you, yes every person here who can tell the difference between a man and a
women, will be able to look at the fetus and tell me whether it is a baby boy or
a girl. No, a fetus is not just another part of a women's body like an appendix
or appendage. These appendages, these perfectly formed tiny feel belong to a 10
week developed baby, not to his or her mother.
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