Though abortion has become one of the most volatile subjects in our culture today, there is not a whole lot of debate going on anymore… just inflammatory rhetoric. I want to do my small part to change that. All rhetoric aside, I want to prove logically and biologically that life begins at conception be answering two simple questions:
1. Is the fetus living tissue from the moment of conception? The answer is simple. Yes. We know a tree is alive and a rock is not because the cells of a tree reproduce themselves and the cells of a rock do not. The same can be applied to human life. From the point of conception, cells quickly begin reproducing themselves, proving that whether at one day, one week, one month, or full term, there is living tissue growing in the womb.
2. Are those living cells a unique life, or simply a part of the mother that can be discarded, like the appendix or tonsils? The answer is equally simple. If you’ve ever watched “CSI,” then you know that you could take cells from anywhere in a human body (i.e. cheek, blood, skin, hair, etc.), and the DNA code uniquely identifies the person from whom that sample was taken. However, cells taken from a fetus will hold a uniquely different DNA code from that of the mother, proving that the tissue is not only living but that it is a unique human life, therefore worthy of protection.
Abortion is certainly an emotional and complex issue, but from a biological standpoint, there is no doubt that a unique life begins at conception. Therefore, responsible people have an obligation to protect that child.
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Adult stem cells are actually alive, you know. And they are human, because human stem cells contain human DNA. In fact, because of spontaneous mutations, they could possibly contain a unique genetic code (indeed, when adult stem cells are induced to become embryonic-like, that is done by altering the genome – creating a unique genetic code).
So, an adult stem cell is actually living and could very likely have a unique genetic code. Why is it not worthy of protection? Obviously, you have left something out of this blog entry.