Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fetus is classed as human life, as claimed by antiabortionists, why is an aborted fetus not accorded the burial that a full-term dead baby receives? Likewise, why does a dead fetus, the result of a miscarriage, not receive burial as a human? The answer would seem to me to be that a fetus, aborted by accident or design, is not properly considered a human life until it is fully formed, for until then it cannot live as a human being...
...will inherit his parents' defective genes. The procedure is known as amniocentesis, from the Greek amnion (membrane) and kentesis (pricking); it is performed by inserting a long needle through the mother's abdomen and drawing off a small sample of the amniotic fluid, the amber liquid in which the fetus floats. Physicians then separate the fetal skin cells from the fluid and place the cells in a nutrient bath where they continue to divide and grow. By examining the cells microscopically and analyzing them chemically, the doctors can identify nearly 70 different genetic disorders, most of them serious...
...abortion is murder, then a fetus is a person. The absurdity of this viewpoint is glaring. A human being does not come into existence with conception. The essence of man is his personality and his sentience. There is no comparison between an unconscious fetus and "the mentally deficient, senile people, amputees, and paraplegics." If Jimson cannot see such a distinction, then there can be no arguing...
...says, even if a fetus is not human, "to destroy what might be human is to be willing to destroy what is human." In that case, then contraception is equivalent to murder since any pair of ovum and sperm has the potential to be human. Would Jimson recommend that we all burn our Trojans and Enovids and fall into bed precipitously...
Even if one did not think it certain that a fetus is human, to destroy what might be human is to be willing to destroy what is human. It is exactly this notion that some are less human than others that led to the Nazis' slaughter of Jews, Slavs, and gypsies. Abortion is all the uglier a crime in that it is committed by a person who has, by his own free will, assumed a responsibility for the baby which might result from the act. What sort of love is there in this? The drive for abortion seems rather...