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Submitted by brookesanders on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Abortion And Society
Since the first states legalized abortion in 1967, there have been over 42 million legal surgical abortions in the U.S. Some 1,878,990 were committed before abortion was legalized nationwide by Roe v. Wade in 1973. An average of 1.6 million babies are killed annually.
Abortion is a term that always seems to bring up some hostility amongst the conversations it has been debated upon. As our text puts it, abortion is a cause that "cuts straight to the heart of everyone's sense of justice." It is clearly apparent that people cannot agree on when human life actually begins. I've heard the terms viability, conception and fertilization tossed around but everyone seems to have their own opinion.
This is a question that has been addressed, answered, and re-answered for the past 25 years. It is my opinion that the baby's life begins at the moment of fertilization (conception). This is the point when the 23 chromosomes in the father's sperm and the 23 chromosomes in the mother's egg meet and combine to form a new one-celled human being or human embryo. This new little person is called a human zygote. Around six or seven days into the baby's development, the tiny embryo moves down the fallopian tube and implants into the wall of the mother's uterus or womb. There the baby will receive nourishment while he or she is growing and forming.
Viability refers to the point at which a baby can survive outside of the mother's womb. This is usually defined as being at around 24 weeks. Unfortunately, abortion supporters use the term viability to define when the baby actually becomes a human life.
There are certain facts that have been documented concerning fertilization. For example one little boy begins the first day of his life within his mother's body. At this point, his father's sperm and his mother's egg combine to form a new human being who carries with him as much information as 50 sets of the 33-volume Encyclopedia Brittannica. This genetic...
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