Thank you RAZD for your response.
Your ongoing "quips" of my "Emotional appeals" don't explain away the raw reality and photographs, including quotes from the highly qualified and experienced in this field, even including abortionists themselves. Again, nice try! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/gunshot.gif" alt="" />
Great picture, and it sure shows what is missing in the case of an empty sac: if you have a miscarriage at 7-8 weeks with an empty pregnancy sac, then that well formed 7 week old embryo in your picture is precisely what is missing. Let's look a little earlier:
Yes great picture, who drew it? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Can we stick with live photos please? you don't want to claim anything with only cartoons or drawn up charts to show for it. It's not a good idea, especially after Haeckel's scandalous artistic embryo frauds.....perhaps he should have taken up art <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/xoxo.gif" alt="" />
However, even-so. Based on the animation and charts you provided. Nothing will change a very basic fact. No matter what stage of development that has taken place after conception, even with the pregnancy sac before the visible sign of the embryo. Life has already begun. Be it successful after that point or not. There is no denying the stage has already been set with all in place ready to unfold. You cannot take away what has been conceived. No matter how much you try and argue it out of existence. Abortion is the only way you'll do that. What do you think morning after pills are for? A more accurate name is "morning abortion pills". Check out the following and see the signatures at the bottom.
http://www.morningafterpill.org/mapstate.htmA scientific textbook called “Basics of Biology” gives five characteristics of living things; these five criteria are found in all modern elementary scientific textbooks:
1. Living things are highly organized.
2. All living things have an ability to acquire materials and energy.
3. All living things have an ability to respond to their environment.
4. All living things have an ability to reproduce.
5. All living things have an ability to adapt.
According to this elementary definition of life, life begins at fertilization, when a sperm unites with an oocyte. From this moment, the being is highly organized, has the ability to acquire materials and energy, has the ability to respond to his or her environment, has the ability to adapt, and has the ability to reproduce (the cells divide, then divide again, etc., and barring pathology and pending reproductive maturity has the potential to reproduce other members of the species). Non-living things do not do these things. Even before the mother is aware that she is pregnant, a distinct, unique life has begun his or her existence inside her.
Furthermore, that life is unquestionably human. A human being is a member of the species homo sapiens. Human beings are products of conception, which is when a human male sperm unites with a human female oocyte (egg). When humans procreate, they don’t make non-humans like slugs, monkeys, cactuses, bacteria, or any such thing. Emperically-verifiable proof is as close as your nearest abortion clinic: send a sample of an aborted fetus to a laboratory and have them test the DNA to see if its human or not. Genetically, a new human being comes into existence from the earliest moment of conception.
"To accept the fact that after fertilization has taken place a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion ... it is plain experimental evidence." The "Father of Modern Genetics" Dr. Jerome Lejeune, Univ. of Descarte, Paris The 23 chromosomes from the male sperm combine with the 23 chromosomes from the female. ovum and a new human life is created. Some 30 hours later the first cell division occurs. At the one cell stage it is easy but erroneous to make the comparison to any other single cell in the body. The first single cell is probably the most complex type of cell that is likely to be found anywhere as from it derives the complex anatomy of the human being. A single cell from the skin is not capable of doing this.
Therefore it is most definitely a human life and one that nobody has a right to remove based on the paper thin or "questionable at most" arguments of the opposition. Again, I will repeat, if there is ANY question at all? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crossfingers.gif" alt="" /> The benefit of doubt should always be given. The burden of proof however lies with the abortionists.
I will not be on the side that has innocent blood on their hands (literally). I am also unashamed to feel emotion in regards to such a serious matter. We're talking about life here...unless of course someone has the nazi mentality!
