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.
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An opened oviduct with an ectopic pregnancy at abo...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...
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This is a very good essay (I take it you were supposed to write a persuasive essay and not a balanced one), so well done!
One thing I would like to point out is that you mention Abortion was permissable in Roman times. Actually, in all of Europe, it was pretty much tolerated for thousands of years. Before 1200 AD they had more knowledge than we might imagine. Herbs, poisons and concoctions were all swallowed by women under the guidance of the wise women and most of the time it worked. When the plague hit Europe in the 14th century, and continued for a couple of hundred years, the population dropped by two-thirds. People in power began to worry about re-population and around this time the witch-hunts began. It is a strong theory, since 'witches' were traditionally women with medical knowledge, that the witch hunts were a means of cleansing the general public of birth-control and abortion knowledge, to force the world to repopulate. Only recently did birth control and abortion become available to the general public. My point is that back in those days the perspective was that abortion was a necessary evil. The perspective of the world only changed because it was forced to change so we could repopulate. For thousands of years people have practised abortion, and I think that believing that abortion is wrong, is just another perspective. It is not fact, but merely opinion.
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