The
common justification for abortion: “foetus” is a “bunch of cells, a
part of mother’s tissue, a fertilized egg,” anything BUT a human being.
Thanks to medical science, we have a clear picture.
- HUMAN FOETUS is any living entity that has DNA from the species Homo Sapiens. (Medical Dictionary)
- Dr Diane N Irving, a Canadian human embryologist: “Before fertilization, the egg and sperm each have only 23 chromosomes. They possess "human life," since they are parts of a living human being; but they are not each whole living human beings themselves. They do not have 46 chromosomes -the number necessary and characteristic for a single individual member of the human species. The fusion of the sperm (with 23 chromosomes) and the egg (with 23 chromosomes) at fertilization results in a live human being, a single-cell human zygote, with 46 chromosomes.”
- Immediately upon fertilization, cellular
development begins. Before implantation the sex of the new life can be
determined. At implantation, the new life is composed of hundreds of
cells and has developed a protective hormone to prevent the mother's
body from rejecting it as a foreign tissue.
A foetus is essentially no different at fertilization, ten weeks, twenty weeks or thirty weeks.
