Using The Word LIFE, to be an alive human being

FreeRepublic ^ | 6/11/2003 | Marvin Galloway

[MHGinTN]

Tiller the killer (Dr. Tiller, proud aborticutionist) has an ad in his brochure offering late term abortions, in which he offers a funeral service and the opportunity for the woman to hold her dead baby for a brief few minutes, having pictures taken, once the corpse is cleaned up. A freeper posted the brochure a few months back. It is truly sick, and a symptom of how far down the slope of dehumanization US we've come, to openly admit the 'procedure' purposely kills an alive, sensing, baby waiting to be born but that's okay because the woman doesn't want the child so killing it is permissible. America is becoming sick unto death.

[MHGinTN]

vegitative = vegetative ... my brain-body connections are questionable, and I'm 57!

[MHGinTN]

"There is an argument, used by those wishing to define the class of humans to be disposable, that the transition from embryo to fetus is an acceptable stopping point for abortion on demand ... prior to the 'fetal stage' the woman has exclusive right to determine which embryos will live and receive a woman's life support and which will be disposed of for whatever reason the woman chooses to cite. Allow me to address that notion.

First, it is scientifically impossible to discover a precise point when the individual alive being transitions from 'only' embryonic to 'fully fetal' in nature. Because that topic is deeply dependent on not so easily explained scientific facts, allow me to move to the next objection to such an arbitrary asignment of value.

It is generally because of the organs being present in the embryo that the arbitrary assignment of fetus is made. Prior to the 'fetal age' of the individual life, the organs necessary for survival as a 'fully functional human being' are not present but are being built by the embryo and looped into the primitive brain, the brain stem. If this is what will be chosen to define an alive individual human being (at the earliest fetal age), it is important to note that the first organ built by the newly conceived individual is cast off at birth! The placenta is the first organ necessary for the survival of the human organism. This organ is so important that even at in vitro fertilization clinics, the technician/physician will not seek to implant an embryo conceived in a petri dish until the organ is already surrounding and protecting the embryonic life. It is the organ of placenta that sends the chemical signals to the woman's uterine lining that initiate implantation and thus further life support from the woman's body. That is why the choice of fetal age is so arbitrary in the false assertion that fetuses should be protected while embryos should not (should not, based on the specious notion of an integrated whole organism functioning for survival and growth and development only when the fetal age, with the organ structures for future survival are in situ, is reached).

In science, it is most often the simplest solution that is the most elegant solution to a problem. Since the embryo builds its own survival capsule (the placenta) to allow it to have shelter and nourishment, it is elegantly factual to assert that the embryo is an alive, integrated whole for that age of its lifetime begun at conception. The embryo is no less an individual human being with at least one functioning organ that allows the integrated whole to survive into the future ages of the lifetime already 'up and running'."

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for the heads up!

[Mr. Silverback]

ProLife Ping! If anyone wants on or off my ProLife Ping List, please notify me here or by freepmail.

[MHGinTN]

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[DesignerChick]

Pro-Life Ping!!!!!!!!!

[cgk]

When we use the term ‘pro-life’ are we really being clear as to what we mean by LIFE?

Ping... excellent essay written by FR's own MHGinTN.