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You all talk about it, like it's an intellectual discussion. So lacking the passion that you'd have if you were discussing leaving a new born baby in the snow, because the mother didn't want to raise it.
Pro-choice vs. Pro-life just isn't really the question. The question really is, when does a human life begin? My answer is that from the moment when two half strands of DNA wind together, becoming a single, unique, and complete human DNA, lying in a human zygote, then you have a new and viable human being, with a distinct identity. Yes, it's very much dependent on its mother for survival. So much so, it will seek a lodging inside her and feed from her through a placenta. Then again, once born, it will still be very dependent on her for survival, and will seek to feed off of her, by nursing.
What is it with people who say the change in the baby's location from inside mom, to outside, means that killing it changes from "choice" and a woman's right to control "HER" body, to murder of a baby? Why is it that when someone murders a pregnant woman, he gets tried for murder of both the woman and the baby, but if she kills the same baby, then she was just excersizing her right of choice?
I've noticed that people who are "pro-choice" really don't like to discuss or think about the question of what is that "thing" inside a pregnant woman's womb. They want to think of it as some kind of tumorous growth, that suddenly "becomes" a human baby when it is born. But the change of birth is mostly a change in the mother, not in the baby. The baby's surroundings change, but it doesn't add or loose any cells over it. The baby doesn't change. From the time it becomes a zygote with a full set of DNA, it is just developing, and getting bigger, on its way to becoming a human adult capable of being self supporting. It will get more and more independent as it matures, surely, but there is no point of sudden change, just a slow progression of development. So there is no point where it suddenly becomes a human, other than when its DNA get together, and it starts that developmental process. So killing a fetus in the womb is murder.
That said, I've know women who were pregnant when they couldn't support a child, and I'd not prosecute a woman for having an abortion. If I'm right, that it is murder, God will do the judgement to my satisfaction. But I'd prosecute the abortionist doctor for murder. He should know better, and society, working through its government, has a right and duty to protect the innocent and weakest among us. Surely that means the babies!
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Trueheart
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