Life or Death: Who Chooses?
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.
Human cheek cells
Human cheek cells
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...